Monster Cookies
Yield
Ingredients
1¼ cup American pistachios, shelled
1½ cup flour
1 cup sugar
125 g butter
1 egg
¾ cup Nougat
48 small, white chocolate drops
½ cup dark chocolate
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350° F (320° F, convection oven).
Peel the American pistachios; finely grind with flour, sugar, butter and egg and knead all together until smooth. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour. Roll out the dough up to a thickness of ¼-inch; cut out round cookies to 4 inches, put the cookies on a lined; bake at 350° F (320° F. convection oven) 12-15 minutes, until they are golden brown. Leave cookies to cool on the wire rack.
Melt nougat in the top of a double boiler, spread half of the cookies with nougat and cover each with another cookie.
Also melt chocolate in a double boiler. Set on the top two small blobs of chocolate and a white chocolate drop as eye lens on it. Draw a pupil and eyebrows with the melted chocolate. Dry the cookies and serve them.
Preparation time: 65 minutes
Baking time: 12-15 minutes
Cooling time: 1 hour
