Sunday, April 25, 2021

Recycling cookie doughs, home made baking powder, and barquillos


 This looks like many things for one post, but they are related....

During Christmas, I made a lot of cookies, and always I ended up having small pieces of dough that don't fit the cookie cutter. Usually, I wrap them in plastic wrapping, and freeze them until next use. In addition, I always make for Epiphany a  Galette de Rois, and I always have a remaining frangipane. Therefore, I always make a frangipane cookie dough apple pie!!


Frangipane Cookie Dough Apple tarte

Remaining of cookie doughs
1 apple
Apricot jam
egg, flour, milk in case it is needed
1 teaspoon of home made baking powder

Take all the frozen cookie doughs, and let them defrost half way through. At that point, place them in a food processor, and add 1 teaspoon of home made baking powder. In case you need it, add more flour  until you have a dough that it is of the consistency of a tarte/pie dough. Place it in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Wash and slice 1 apple and add some drops of lemon. Set aside.

With a roll pin, flatten the dough and place it on a oven proof pie m old. Add 1 egg and/or milk to the frangipane in case you need it. Place on top the sliced apple, and bake it for 30-40 minutes at 365F until is done the frangipane (test it with a bamboo stick). When it is warm, brush it with apricot jam. ENJOY!



Home made baking powder

For about 2 years, I'm making my own baking powder. This mix last me for 6 months, and it was saving me when I couldn't find baking powder in  the stores!

40 grams of rice flour

40 grams of baking soda

90 grams of cream tartar

Mix all together, and keep it in a dark and dry area. 


Remember when I made my fortune cookies? The taste of them reminded me of "barquillos"......a treat that I used to have on Sundays when I went to play in the seesaw to the local plaza with friends....I used the same recipe, an I shaped them with the back of my wooden spoon...They are delicious!!









2 comments:

  1. Love the upcycling of the X'mas cookies! The tart looks fabulous. Fortunate cookies in barquillos form are really nice too. Well done!

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  2. Wow - there is a lot in this post but all interesting. Such a clever idea to freeze leftover dough and the barquillos do look like fortune cookie dough. What an amazing looking tart!!

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