Name: Les petits Bourbons (Glazed chocolate cookies)
Yield: For 36 cookies
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: ½ cup (100 g) sugar; ¾ cup (100 g) all-purpose flour; Pinch of salt; 1 tablespoon instant coffee granules; 4 or 5 pistachios, shelled; 2 egg yolks; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 2½ tablespoons (18 g) unsweetened cocoa; 6 tablespoons (85 g) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 4 ounces (115 g) semisweet chocolate, broken into bits

Preparation info

For
36
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

New Menus from Simca's Cuisine

By Simone Beck and Michael James

Published 1979

About

These nice little cookies come from a well-worn notebook of my mother’s, with absolutely no explanation for the title. They contain no liquor of any kind.

Ingredients

¾ cup (100 g) all-purpose flour
Pinch of salt

Method

Working either by hand or in the food processor, mix together the dry ingredients, and then blend in the butter. Add the egg yolks and vanilla extract and work until the mixture masses together. Press into a ball. Wrap with plastic, and refrigerate until firm, at least 30 minutes.

On a well-floured board roll out the dough ¼ inch (¾ cm) thick. Cut into 1½-nich (4 cm) rounds and place on