Hope!! Perfect Elephant Ear Pastry Cookies (To Drib Dead For!)

In yesterday's weblog postal service I included a photograph of these amazing Elephant Ear cookies that I made during terminal weekend's snowstorm. I promised you lot the recipe, therefore hither it is! It's funny how I've gotten into the habit of grabbing my telephone to snap photos spell I bake as well as cook. "Wait! don't consume that yet! I lead keep to lead keep a moving-picture demo of it first!" is something that my daughters are getting used to hearing. Hehe.

Before you lot start:

*I highly recommend baking these cookies on parchment newspaper covered cookie sheets. It eliminates a lot of the mess as well as in ane lawsuit you lot lead keep them out of the oven they simply slide correct off of the parchment paper!*This is a yeast dough that you lot volition demand to refrigerate for 2 hours earlier you lot bake the cookies.*One terminal discussion of advice. If in that place are to a greater extent than than 2 or 3 people inwards your household, you lot may wish to double this recipe. These cookies are simply THAT good!

Here's what you lot volition need:

1 bundle 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 as well as therefore cooled to lukewarm temperature (scalded agency heated to simply below boiling when tiny bubbles start out to look to a greater extent than or less 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 mensuration cup. Dissolve the bundle of active dry out yeast inwards the water, mix good until the yeast is dissolved, as well as therefore gear 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 lead keep the consistency of course crumbs.

In a drinking glass mensuration cup, mix together the lukewarm scalded milk as well as egg yolk. Then add together the yeast as well as H2O mixture to the milk as well as egg yolk as well as mix well.

Now add together the milk/egg yolk as well as yeast/water mixture to your flour mixture as well as mix good until all ingredients are combined as well as you lot lead keep a soft dough. If the dough is equally good glutinous you lot tin add together ane or 2 tablespoons of flour, but the dough should live soft as well as non stiff. Cover the bowl amongst plastic roll as well as refrigerate for at to the lowest degree 2 hours.

Roll the dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Shape into a 20x10 inch rectangle.

Brush the transcend of the dough amongst 2 tablespoons of melted butter

Mix together the 1 1/2 cups of saccharide as well as 2 tablespoons of cinnamon. Sprinkle most a one-half loving cup of the cinnamon saccharide mixture onto the dough.

Starting at the long terminate of the dough, scroll the dough into a long log shape. Pinch the edges shut but create non seal the edges tightly.

Place the scroll onto a cutting board as well as piece into one-inch slices. I piece most 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 as well as house a piece on top.

Roll the piece amongst your rolling pivot until it is a long oblong shape. I normally scroll mine in ane lawsuit or twice as well as therefore flip it over as well as scroll it over again on the opposite side.

Carefully house the rolled piece onto a parchment newspaper covered cookie sheet. Repeat this procedure amongst the remaining rolls of dough. Sprinkle the tops amongst additional cinnamon saccharide if desired.(Note: If you lot are adding chopped walnuts or pecans to your cookies, straightaway is the fourth dimension to create so. Sprinkle the nuts on transcend of the cookies as well as gently press them into the dough amongst your fingers.)

Bake the cookies inwards a 400 score F oven for 10-12 minutes until they are lite golden brownish as well as the cinnamon saccharide melts. Remove from oven as well as slide the parchment from the cookie canvass as well as allow them to cool on a tabletop or on wire cooling racks.

Yum :) Enjoy!

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I hope you lot bask these amazing cookies. If you lot endeavour this recipe, live certain to halt dorsum as well as larn out a comment as well as allow me know how you lot similar them!

Enjoy your weekend!

Love, Laura

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