Chili-Cinnamon Cookies
- 1 1/4 cups flour
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar (sifted)
- 1/2 cup ground hazelnuts
- 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper or 1/2 teaspoon ground dried chile
- 1 pinch salt
- 1/4 cup ground almonds
- 3 1/2 ounces butter
- 1 egg yolk
- For Dusting
- Dutch-processed cocoa powder
- If you are using dried chili crunch them as fine as possible and measure then 1/2 teaspoon.
- In the bowl of your food processor add the first six ingredients.
- Heat a pan over medium high heat and roast the grounded almonds until golden. Immediately remove from heat and add to the other ingredients.
- Cut butter into pieces and add to flour mixture. Add egg yolk.
- Mix in your food processor until dough is formed. Take dough out of the bowl, knead once or twice and then form a roll (this will make it easier to divide dough later).
- Wrap dough roll into cling film a put it into fridge for 30 minutes. Line out baking tray(s) with parchment paper.
- Take dough out of the fridge and cut roll into 10 slices. Cut each slice into 4 pieces. You should now have 40 little dough pieces.
- Roll each pice into a roll of about 3 to 4 inches in lenght. The middle of each roll should be a bit thicker and let the roll taper off towards the ends. Put the rolls onto the baking tray forming a "C" (half-moon shape).
- Put the baking tray(s) in a cold place for about 30 to 60 minutes.
- Meanwhile preheat oven (390 F, 200 C).
- Bake the cookies for 10 minutes. Let them cool completely on a cooling rack. Dust them with (unsweetened) cacao powder.
- NOTE: cooking time is given for one baking tray. Time to make includes 60 minutes for cooling the dough.
- NOTE: I put the cookies on the baking tray into the fridge for 30 minutes. It is important to keep the formed cookies for 30 minutes in a cold place. The butter in the cookies has to be cooled completely.
- NOTE: these cookies are very spicy. If you don't like them spicy reduce the amount of cayenne pepper / dried chili pepper.
flour, powdered sugar, ground hazelnuts, cinnamon, ground cayenne pepper, salt, ground almonds, butter, egg yolk, dutch
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chili-cinnamon-cookies-198198 (may not work)