Cookies, Day 5

1. First we made harlequin cookies. Harlequins are two sugar cookies sandwiched with raspberry jelly and dusted with powdered sugar. Beacuse we had the dough already made, it was just a matter of cutting out the rounds and baking. My group is very good at getting a cookie assembly line going, so we get things like this done VERY fast. (Not to brag or anything, well...maybe a little)

2. Next were arrachide cookies. These are also made with sugar cookie dough. The dough is cut into flutted rounds, marked with a fork, egg washed, and baked. The rounds are then sandwiched with peanut butter, and partialy dipped in chocolate.

3. Next were cutout cookies. I had brought a few of my own cookie cutters to class, so we used them. We were not decorating them today, just baking them.

4. Raspberry strips also use sugar cookie dough, so we made them next. The cookies start off as strip of sugar cookie dough. You then pipe a line of butter cookie dough down each side, and pipe raspberry jelly down the center. The strip is then baked, and cut while still hot.

5. Next we made almond s cookies. They are a piped cookie, made with a almond based dough. We piped small s shapes, baked them, and sandwiched them with apricot jam (finally a cookie that is not sandwiched with raspberry!).

6. The last cookies of the day were japanaise. They are a strange cookie. The cookie itself is an almond merinque cookie that is molded using a stencil. While the cookies baked, we flavored the butter-cream from yesterday with mocha compond. Once the cookies were baked, we sandwiched them with the butter-cream, piped a butter-cream shell on top, and topped them with a chocolate "espresso bean" (coffee flavored chocolate that is molded into a bean shape).

Here you can see the japonaise in the foreground, and the almond s cookies in the background.

7. Again, the culmination of the day was our platter. Today, we had to use these ugly gold cardboard rounds as our platters. The issue with these (beside the fact that they are tacky) is the size, they don't hold very much.