Description
Recipe for white chocolate shortbread sandwich cookies made with a hazelnut-flavored shortcrust pastry filled with white chocolate ganache (For about 20-25 sandwich cookies)
Ingredients
Pastry dough
- 300 g (2 1/3 cups) Flour - All-purpose
- 160 g (1 1/2 cups) Powdered sugar
- 100 g (1 cup) Hazelnut meal
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 200 g (1 cup) Butter - unsalted and cold
- 1 egg
White chocolat ganache
- 255 g (1 2/3 cups) White chocolate chips
- 90 g (1/3 cup) Heavy cream - full fat
Instructions
Shortcrust pastry
- Place the dry ingredients, flour, hazelnut meal, powdered sugar, baking powder, and salt in a large bowl.
- Then add the cold butter cut into pieces and rub with your hands until you get a sandy texture.
- Then add the egg and mix with a wooden spoon before finishing the mixture with your hands until it forms a homogeneous ball of dough.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and place it in the fridge for 20 minutes.
- Then place the dough ball between 2 sheets of parchment paper and flatten it with a rolling pin to a thickness of about 3 mm.
- Using a round cookie cutter (about 5 cm in diameter) cut out round shapes, remove the excess dough
- Then place your cut-out cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and put in the freezer for about 15 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 350°F / 180°C and bake the cookies for about 10 minutes for each tray.
White chocolate ganache
- Place the heavy cream with the white chocolate chips in a medium bowl.
- And melt them in a double boiler on a saucepan containing a bit of water heated on medium heat, until you get a well-melted mixture.
- Cover with plastic wrap and place in the fridge until cool.
Assembly
- Fill a pastry bag with the cooled white chocolate ganache and fill a cookie with a small layer and place a second cookie on top to form a sandwich.
- Place your filled cookies in the fridge for a few minutes to cool and harden the ganache.
Equipment
Notes
Storage: Up to 1 week at room temperature in an airtight container and up to 3 months in the freezer.
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Category: Dessert, snack
- Cuisine: american
Nutrition
- Calories: 220
- Sugar: 16
- Sodium: 44
- Fat: 11
- Saturated Fat: 5
- Carbohydrates: 26
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 4
- Cholesterol: 36