Hohoho Perfect Elephant Ear Pastry Cookies (To Function For!)
Before you lot start:
*I highly recommend baking these cookies on parchment newspaper covered cookie sheets. It eliminates a lot of the mess together with ane time you lot accept them out of the oven they only slide correct off of the parchment paper!*This is a yeast dough that you lot volition demand to refrigerate for ii hours earlier you lot bake the cookies.*One final discussion of advice. If in that place are to a greater extent than than ii or 3 people inwards your household, you lot may wishing to double this recipe. These cookies are only THAT good!
Here's what you lot volition need:
1 packet active dry out yeast
1/4 loving cup warm H2O (105 to 115 degrees F)
2 1/4 cups flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup butter
1/2 loving cup milk, scalded together with and then cooled to lukewarm temperature (scalded way heated to only below boiling when tiny bubbles commence to look or hence the border of the milk)
1 egg yolk
2 Tablespoons of butter, melted
1 1/2 cups of sugar
2 Tablespoons cinnamon
(Optional - 1 loving cup chopped walnuts or pecans)
Directions:
Heat the 1/4 loving cup of H2O inwards a drinking glass criterion cup. Dissolve the packet of active dry out yeast inwards the water, mix good until the yeast is dissolved, together with and then laid upward aside for 5 minutes to allow the yeast to activate.
In a mixer combine these ingredients:
2 1/4 cups flour
2 Tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 loving cup butter
Mix until you lot cause got the consistency of course crumbs.
In a drinking glass criterion cup, mix together the lukewarm scalded milk together with egg yolk. Then add together the yeast together with H2O mixture to the milk together with egg yolk together with mix well.
Now add together the milk/egg yolk together with yeast/water mixture to your flour mixture together with mix good until all ingredients are combined together with you lot cause got a soft dough. If the dough is likewise glutinous you lot tin flame add together ane or ii tablespoons of flour, but the dough should live soft together with non stiff. Cover the bowl alongside plastic twine together with refrigerate for at to the lowest degree ii hours.
Roll the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into a 20x10 inch rectangle.
Brush the laissez passer on of the dough alongside ii tablespoons of melted butter
Mix together the 1 1/2 cups of saccharide together with 2 tablespoons of cinnamon. Sprinkle nearly a one-half loving cup of the cinnamon saccharide mixture onto the dough.
Starting at the long halt of the dough, gyre the dough into a long log shape. Pinch the edges unopen but create non seal the edges tightly.
Place the gyre onto a cutting board together with piece into one-inch slices. I piece nearly 18-20 rounds from my dough.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Sprinkle some of the remaining cinnamon saccharide mixture onto a piece of waxed newspaper together with house a piece on top.
Roll the piece alongside your rolling pivot until it is a long oblong shape. I commonly gyre mine ane time or twice together with and then flip it over together with gyre it ane time again on the contrary side.
Carefully house the rolled piece onto a parchment newspaper covered cookie sheet. Repeat this procedure alongside the remaining rolls of dough. Sprinkle the tops alongside additional cinnamon saccharide if desired.(Note: If you lot are adding chopped walnuts or pecans to your cookies, forthwith is the fourth dimension to create so. Sprinkle the nuts on laissez passer on of the cookies together with gently press them into the dough alongside your fingers.)
Bake the cookies inwards a 400 flat F oven for 10-12 minutes until they are lite golden dark-brown together with the cinnamon saccharide melts. Remove from oven together with slide the parchment from the cookie canvas together with allow them to cool on a tabletop or on wire cooling racks.
Yum :) Enjoy!
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Enjoy your weekend!
Love, Laura
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