Hi, I'm Danelle and this is where I dish about my favorite recipes. I focus on simple, family friendly fare and try to make feeding the family a little bit easier for everyone.
Ingredients2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 large egg yolk
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
1/4 to 1/3 cup jam, such as berry or plum
Confectioners' sugar, for dusting (optional)
Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Melt the butter in a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Continue to cook, swirling the pan occasionally, until the butter browns lightly and smells slightly nutty, about 15 minutes. Stir occassionally to loosen brown bits on bottom of pan. Transfer the butter to a medium bowl and cool slightly. Meanwhile, whisk the flour, baking powder and salt together in a medium bowl. Whisk the egg yolk, sugar and vanilla into the cooled browned butter. Stir the dry ingredients into the butter mixture until the dough looks like wet sand.
Scoop out dough with a small teaspoon (the kind you set the table with, not the kind you measure with). Rock spoon gently back and forth against the side of the bowl, packing the dough into the spoon, then scrape/slide the spoon against the inside of the bowl to make spoon-shaped cookies. Trim excess dough with your fingers and slide out onto ungreased cookie sheets, with the flat side of the cookie facing down. Bake cookies until just browned, about 12 to 15 minutes. Cool almost completely on the baking sheets, and then transfer cookies to a rack to cool. When cool, spread 1/2 teaspoon jam on the flat side of a cookie, and then sandwich together with a second cookie. Repeat with remaining cookies. If desired, dust cookies with confectioner's sugar.
Let's Dish
Spoon Cookies, or Lusikkaleivat, are a traditional Finnish cookie. I've been wanting to try these for awhile now, and I'm so glad I did. I mixed the dough in my large Pyrex batter bowl, and the straight sides worked well for shaping the cookies. Don't be afraid of all the brown bits in the butter. They give these shortbread-like cookies a delicious, nutty taste. These are also good with Nutella in place of the jam.
Who Dished It Up First
Adapted from foodnetwork.com.
Mmmm, these look fantastic!
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned nutella instead of the jam...what about melted chocolate?? Think that would work?
ReplyDeleteI love the nutty smell of browned butter and nutella flavor. In fact, I like the whole blog. I am now your follower and browsing through this beautiful recipes...
ReplyDeleteWow! These look fantastic!
ReplyDeleteWOW! These look divine!! :)
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ReplyDelete~ingrid
Hi, i really love all your recipes, and I was wondering if you could help me a bit with the metric system since I'm from Greece and we use different measures :). I found a conversion chart on Google but I want to make sure :)
ReplyDeletedegrees (you refer to Fahrenheit when posting?)
1 cup (is it the standard 250 ml, or you use a bigger one?)
1 stick of butter (how many gr?)
I hope my comment is not an inconvenient, but i tried to make other recipes from your blog and I think I'm not using the right cup size :)
hope you have a wonderful day, Kalimera :)
Kalimera, yes, my degrees are in Fahrenheit. And 1 cup = 250ml. A stick of butter (according to what it says on my butter) = 113.4 grams. Hope that helps.
ReplyDeleteMy husband is Canadian and when we lived there for awhile, I had to convert all my recipes to the metric system. Wouldn't it be nice if the US just went along with the rest of the world? :)
thank you :) it sure helps. it's a bit confusing for outsiders, but i guess it's easier to use the cup system :)
ReplyDeletehave a great day!