Cookie Tumbleweeds

Preparation info
  • Approximately

    20

    decorations
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 2003

  • About

These are easy to make and can be used to add a contemporary look to many desserts. Adding the extra butter to the tuile paste makes the decorations a bit thinner and more elegant. Pipe the lines thin and not too close together so the loops and circles do not bake together in the oven; the paste will flow out slightly during baking.

Ingredients

Method

  1. To make a container in which to store the fragile decorations, place a sheet of plastic wrap over an empty cardboard egg carton. If you do not have Silpats, grease the backs of inverted sheet pans, coat with flour, and shake off as much flour as possible.
  2. Stir the melted butter into the tuile paste. Place a portion of the mixture into a paper pastry bag and cut