Chocolate Dipped Jam Filled Cats Tongues Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to about 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, add the butter, vanilla powder, and icing sugar. Whip the mixture to a creamy and fluffy consistency. Slowly add the egg whites and the whole egg to the mixture and continue mixing until fully combined. Then slowly add the flour and mix well until fluffy and uniform in texture.
• Place the mixture into a piping bag and squeeze out approximately 2 1/2-inch/6 cm long strips (about 2 1/2-inch/6 cm apart) onto a greased baking sheet. Strips will flatten and expand in the oven into the shape of a 'cat's tongue'. Bake for approximately 6 minutes, or until golden.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*.
• Line cookie sheets with baking parchment.
• Cream butter on medium speed until light, about 2 minutes.
• Add sugar and blend together.
• Add vanilla (or zest), then egg and egg yolk;mix well.
• Sift flour over batter and incorporate.
• Batter will be thick.
• Spoon batter into pastry bag or decorator fitted with 1/2 inch round tip or medium star tip.
• Pipe 3 inch lengths of dough, about 2 inches apart, onto cookie sheets.
• Bake cookies in the center of the oven for 8 to 9 minutes, until golden brown around the edges.
• Let stand on cookie sheets 2 minutes, then remove to wire racks to cool completely.
• While cookies are cooling, prepare filling.
• In a saucepan, melt the jam with the lemon juice until it comes to a simmer.
• Brush the jam over flat side of half the cookies and top with remaining cookies, flat side touching the jam.
• Let cookies remain on racks in a cool place until jam has set.
• Dip one end of each cookie into melted chocolate and place on wax paper until chocolate hardens.
• If desired, sprinkle chocolate with chocolate or colored sprinkles (jimmies) before letting the chocolate set up.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400*.
• Lightly grease baking sheets.
• Cream butter and sugar together.
• Add egg whites, one at a time, mixing well after each.
• Add flour and then vanilla, mixing well.
• If dough seems to soft, add a bit more flour.
• Force through a pastry bag or cookie press fitted with a medium star tip onto baking sheets, making cookies about 3 inches long.
• Bake for 10 minutes or until lightly browned.
• Cool on wire racks completely.
• If desired, make sandwich cookies by spreading with jam or melted chocolate, or be truly decadent by making jam filled sandwich cookies and then dipping in chocolate!