Candy-Stripe Cookie Sticks
- 8 large egg whites
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- Pinch of coarse salt
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, melted and cooled
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Red gel-paste food coloring
- Preheat oven to 400F.
- Put egg whites and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment, and beat on medium speed until foamy.
- Reduce speed to low.
- Add flour and salt; mix until just combined.
- Add butter, cream, and vanilla, and beat until combined.
- Transfer 1 cup batter to a bowl (set remaining batter aside).
- Stir in red coloring until desired color is reached.
- Transfer tinted batter to a pastry bag fitted with a small plain round tip (such as Ateco #2).
- Secure end of pastry bag with rubber band.
- Set aside.
- Put a 3 by 6-inch rectangle stencil on a baking sheet lined with a nonstick baking mat (such as Silpat).
- Spoon a heaping tablespoon of plain batter into the rectangle, and spread with a small offset spatula.
- Repeat with stencil and more batter.
- Pipe evenly spaced diagonal tinted stripes onto each rectangle.
- Bake until pale golden, 6 to 8 minutes.
- Immediately loosen edges with a spatula, and flip cookie over.
- Starting from one long side, roll cookie into a thin cylinder.
- Place seam side down on a clean work surface; let cool until set.
- Quickly repeat with second cookie.
- Repeat process, tinting and baking two or three cookies at a time.
- Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment in airtight containers at room temperature up to 1 week.
- 1.
- Cut a 3 by 6-inch rectangle from card-board as a template.
- Position template on baking sheet, and spoon on a tablespoon of batter.
- Spread it to fill template with an offset spatula.
- 2.
- Pipe evenly spaced diagonal stripes over batter.
- Repeat a second time on same baking sheet.
- 3.
- Bake flat, and roll cookies while theyre still warm, then set aside to cool.
egg whites, sugar, flour, salt, unsalted butter, heavy cream, vanilla, red gelpaste
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/candy-stripe-cookie-sticks-389306 (may not work)