Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Katzenzungen (cat tongue cookies)

Katzenzungen have a particular shape, similar to cat tongues, hence their name. I've only had them from solid chocolate, never as cookies. However, because the recipe does not require any eggs I decided to try it out.

Ingredients:

Baking sheet
Parchment paper
Some grease

For the cake batter:
50 g Nutella or some other hazelnut-nougat creme
125 g butter or margarine (1 stick)
60 g powdered sugar
Some vanilla aroma
A pinch of salt
130 g flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1 package caramel pudding powder (Dr. Oetker Gala Karamell or butterscotch JELL-O)
1 tablespoon milk

For the decoration:
100 g semisweet chocolate
1 tablespoon sunflower or coconut oil

Preparation:
1. Grease baking sheet and line with parchment paper. Preheat oven to 200 degrees Celsius (375 F).
2. Using an electric hand mixer blend Nutella and butter or margarine. Sift powdered sugar and add to batter. Add vanilla aroma and salt to batter.
3. Mix flour, baking powder and pudding powder, and add in two portions to batter. Mix in milk last.
4. Add batter to a piping bag with a flat hole opening about 1/3 inch in diameter (Ø 8 mm). Squeeze batter an stripes of about 2-3 inches long "Katzenzungenform" (Länge etwa 6 cm) on baking sheet.
5. Bake at 200 degrees Celsius (375 F) for about 8 min. Remove cookies from oven, and let fully cool on baking sheet.
6. Melt semisweet chocolate and oil at low heat in microwave or in a bowl over hot water. Dip one half of the cookies into chocolate, and put on parchment paper until chocolate is dry.

Comments:
1. I didn't have the correct flat hole opening adaptor for the piping back, so I used a star-shaped one of the correct size. With this one, though, the cat tongues looked just wrong, so I decided to make S-shaped cookies instead.
2. In contrast to Dr. Oetker Gala Karamell pudding the butterscotch JELL-O contains sugar, so you might want to decrease the amount of powdered sugar by 1/3 or 1/2.


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