Sesame and hazelnut cookie
Ingredients (for 4 sandwich cookies made from 8 cookies)
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Roasted White Sesame Seeds
4 tablespoons
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Hazelnut (crushed)
1/2 cup
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Flour
6 tablespoons
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Granulated sugar
6 tablespoons
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Grated lemon peel
1/2
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Egg
1
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Lemon juice
3 tablespoons
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【Lemon-flavored Butter Cream】
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Unsalted butter
1/2 lb (approx. 225 g)
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Egg white
1
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Granulated sugar
3 tablespoons
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Water
1 tablespoon
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Lemon juice
1/2 tablespoon
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Grated lemon peel
A dash
Directions
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Mix Roasted White Sesame Seeds, hazelnut, granulated sugar, flour and grated lemon peel in a bowl..
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Mix egg and lemon juice in another bowl and mix it with the mixture from (1).
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Drop the mixture from (2) by teaspoonfuls onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in the preheated oven at 180 degrees C (350 degrees F) until it turns brown and crisp.
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(Make the lemon-flavored butter cream.) Let the butter warm to room temperature.
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Put the egg white into a dry bowl and whip with a handheld electric mixer (or KitchenAid mixer) to stiff-peak.
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Heat granulated sugar and water in a small pan until it bubbles (120 degrees C or 250 degrees F).
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Drop the hot syrup mixture from (6) thinly into the meringue mixture from (5) and keep stirring with the mixer.
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Stop stirring when the mixture from (7) has cooled to room temperature (this is Italian meringue).
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Mix the warmed butter from (4), lemon juice and grated lemon peel in a bowl, and add the Italian meringue from (8) last.
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Sandwich the lemon-flavored butter cream from (9) between the hazelnut cookies from (3).
Tips: The cookies’ lemon flavor is refreshing.
Products used in this recipe
Roasted Sesame Seed
Roasted sesame seeds which feasts your eyes and tangue with savoury sesame flavor.