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

Remaining of frangipane 

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!!