Engelsaugen - German Angel Eye Cookies - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 1/4 cups flour (120 grams)
    6 tablespoons butter (75 grams)
    1 egg yolk
    1/3 cup confectioners' sugar (35 grams)
    1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
    1 pinch salt
    1/2 of a lemon rind, grated
    3/4 cup raspberry jam
    CHOCOLATE COATING
    2 blocks dark chocolate squares, melted
    2 teaspoons shortening
Preparation
    Mix together the flour, butter, egg yolk, confectioner's sugar, vanilla, pinch of salt and the grated lemon rind to form a dough. Leave the dough in a cool place for an hour.
    Out of the dough make small balls and place on a lightly sprayed prepared baking tray. Make a small indentation in the middle of each ball, using your little finger and fill the hole, using a teaspoon, with raspberry jam.
    Bake your cookies at 375F (or 200 degrees C) for about 15 minutes.
    Leave them to cool and remove to a wire rack.
    Melt the chocolate and shortening together. Coat the bottom of each cookie with melted chocolate and leave until firm on waxed paper.

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