Recipe

Sesame and hazelnut cookie

  • 30 min
  • Calories 806 kcal

*Calories are for one serving.

Ingredients (4 sandwich cookies made from 8 cookies)

Roasted White Sesame Seeds4 tablespoons
Hazelnut (crushed)1/2 cup
Flour6 tablespoons
Granulated sugar6 tablespoons
Grated lemon peel1/2
Egg1
Lemon juice3 tablespoons
【Lemon-flavored Butter Cream】
Unsalted butter1/2 lb (approx. 225 g)
Egg white1
Granulated sugar3 tablespoons
Water1 tablespoon
Lemon juice1/2 tablespoon
Grated lemon peelA dash

Directions (30 min)

  1. Mix Roasted White Sesame Seeds, hazelnut, granulated sugar, flour and grated lemon peel in a bowl..

  2. Mix egg and lemon juice in another bowl and mix it with the mixture from (1).

  3. 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.

  4. (Make the lemon-flavored butter cream.) Let the butter warm to room temperature.

  5. Put the egg white into a dry bowl and whip with a handheld electric mixer (or KitchenAid mixer) to stiff-peak.

  6. Heat granulated sugar and water in a small pan until it bubbles (120 degrees C or 250 degrees F).

  7. Drop the hot syrup mixture from (6) thinly into the meringue mixture from (5) and keep stirring with the mixer.

  8. Stop stirring when the mixture from (7) has cooled to room temperature (this is Italian meringue).

  9. Mix the warmed butter from (4), lemon juice and grated lemon peel in a bowl, and add the Italian meringue from (8) last.

  10. Sandwich the lemon-flavored butter cream from (9) between the hazelnut cookies from (3).

Tips: The cookies’ lemon flavor is refreshing.

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