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Recipe: Ganache Cookies
Summary: December 12 - A Cookie A Day Until Christmas! I'm taking suggestions for a new name for this cookie. I really just wanted to make some ganache, so I could say "ganache" over and over. Seriously, they need and deserve a better name. Help me!
Ingredients
- 1½ cups butter
- 8 ounces powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 cups flour
- ½ cup almonds, finely chopped
- 9 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1 cup heavy cream
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugars. Add eggs and vanilla, mix until light and fluffy.
- Combine dry ingredients together and add to butter mixture.
- Divide dough in half and roll in long ropes. Spread chopped almonds on a cookie sheet and roll cookie dough in almonds, covering as much as possible.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. Refrigerated cookie dough rolls should be about 2” in diameter.
- Slice cookies ½” thick and bake for 8 minutes at 350°.
- Prepare ganache by placing chocolate in medium bowl. Heat cream in microwave for 2 minutes on 50% power, stirring after each minute.
- Pour hot cream over chocolate and whisk until smooth.
- Allow ganache to cool and whip with whisk until light and fluffy. Pipe whipped ganache in the center of each cookie and garnish with a sliced almond.
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Variations
Allow ganache to cool slightly. Place cooling rack over wax paper and place cookies on rack. Spoon ganache over cookies, allowing some to run over the edge of cookies.
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