African Vanielje on Oct 03 2007 at 8:15 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
These little Cat’s Tongues are crisp, delicate, and the perfect accompaniment to sorbets and fruit ices.
Cream together
- 100g unsalted butter
- 100g lavender infused caster sugar
When it is light and fluffy beat in gradually
- 3 egg whites, lightly beaten to loosen
Fold in
- 100g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon lavender flowers
Spoon into a paper piping cone and snip off a 1 cm wide tip.
Pipe 5 – 6 cm strips onto a baking parchment lined tray, spacing them 5 cm apart so they have space to spread
Bake @ 200*C for 7 minutes , or until slightly golden around the edges.
Serve with fruit or honey icecreams
OOH, I can smell all the lavendar from this far!! this one’s a try onmy list!:)
[...] Lavender Langues du Chat from Vanielje Kitchen [...]
[...] about to enter a woodsy chocolatey-cherry territory. Or, it can be gross, like the cookies known as langues du chat—they most closely resemble Pepperidge Farm Milanos—which means ‘cat’s [...]