Cookie Recipes
Chestnut Fingers
Yield: 30 cookies
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 1/2 cup chestnut purée or canned chestnuts drained and pureed
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 slightly beaten egg white
- Granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate pieces, melted
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a cookie sheet.
- In a mixer bowl cream butter and 1/4 cup sugar.
- Add egg yolk and beat until light and fluffy.
- Beat in chestnut purée and vanilla extract.
- Stir together flour, salt and cinnamon; stir into creamed mixture.
- Using a scant tablespoon dough for each cookie, roll into 2 1/2 inch fingers. Dip one side of each finger in egg white, then in sugar. Place sugar side up on the prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake for about 20 minutes.
- Remove from sheet; cool on rack.
- Dip one end of each cookie in melted chocolate (about 1 inch).
- Place on wax paper until set.