Caprice au Kirsch

Name: Caprice au Kirsch
Yield: Makes 25 to 30 cookies
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Chopped pistachio, as needed to sprinkle on top; 1½ cups (200 g) confectioners’ sugar; ½ egg white; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1 egg yolk; 1½ tablespoons (30 g) hazelnut flour; ⅔ cup (150 g) butter, at room temperature; ¾ cup (80 g) hazelnut flour; 7 tablespoons (100 g) butter, at room temperature; 1¾ cups (200 g) all-purpose flour; 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar or ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 egg, beaten; 3 tablespoons kirsch eau de vie; ¾ cup (100 g) confectioners’ sugar; 2 tablespoons kirsch eau de vie

Preparation info

Makes
25 to 30
cookies

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Gabriel Kreuther

By Gabriel Kreuther

Published 2021

About

This is a very special cookie, a round butter cookie with kirsch on top, and sandwiching a vanilla confection that is coated in a glaçage, a glaze made of confectioners’ sugar.

Ingredients

For the Cookie Dough

1¾ cups (200 g) all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking po

Europe
France
Alsace
Cookies
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

For the cookie dough, mix all of the ingredients together into a smooth dough, wrap in plastic, and refrigerate overnight.

Preheat your oven to 350°F (175°C).

Roll the dough out to a thickness of about ⅛ inch (3 mm). Cut the dough into 1½- to 2-inch (4 to 5 cm) ovals. R