Amerikaner Cake Like Cookies
For children (12 Pieces/2 baking sheets)
Preparation time: about 30 minutes, excluding cooling time
Baking time: about 20 minutes
For the baking sheet:
Baking parchment
For the mixture:
- 75 g/3 oz (3⁄8 cup) soft margarine or butter
- 100 g/31⁄2 oz (1⁄2 cup) sugar
- 2–3 drops vanilla essence in 1 tablespoon sugar
- 5 drops vanilla essence
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 medium eggs
- 250 g/9 oz (21⁄2 cups) plain (all-purpose) flour
- 3 level teaspoons baking powder
- 100 ml/31⁄2 fl oz (1⁄2 cup) milk
For the coating:
About 4 teaspoons milk
For the icing:
- 200 g/7 oz (11⁄3 cups) icing (confectioner’s) sugar
- about 2 tablespoons lemon juice or water
- 150 g/5 oz plain chocolate
- 2 teaspoons cooking oil
- chopped blanched almonds
- chopped pistachios
- sugar crystals
- desiccated coconut
Per piece:P: 5 g, F: 12 g, C: 47 g, kJ: 1309, kcal: 312
1. Preheat the oven. Line the baking sheet with baking parchment and cut out a second piece of the same size.
2. To make the cake mixture, stir the softened margarine or butter with a hand mixer with whisk until it becomes smooth and homogeneous. Gradually add the sugar, vanilla sugar, vanilla essence and salt and stir until the mixture thickens. Add 1 egg at a time, whisking each one for about 1⁄2 minute at the highest setting.
3. Mix together the flour and baking powder, sift and add to the margarine or butter mixture in 2 stages, alternating with the milk, stirring briefly with the mixer at the medium setting. Spoon half the mixture in 6 small heaps, not too close to each other, onto the baking sheet, using 2 tablespoons. Then shape using a moistened knife. Put the first baking sheet in the oven.
Top/bottom heat: about 180 °C/350 °F (preheated),
Fan oven: about 160 °C/325 °F (preheated), Gas mark 4 (preheated),
Baking time: about 20 minutes.
4. After about 15 minutes in the oven, brush the top of the pastries with milk. With the rest of the dough make 6 more heaps on the second piece of baking parchment. Slide the baking parchment with the baked Amerikaners onto a rack and leave to cool. Then slide the second batch of Amerikaners onto the baking sheet and bake in the same way as the first batch.
5. For the icing, sift the icing sugar and mix with lemon juice or water to make a thick mixture. Coarsely chop the chocolate and melt together with the vegetable oil in a bain-marie over low heat. Coat the underside of the Amerikaners with the icing. Sprinkle with almonds, pistachio nuts, sugar crystals and desiccated coconut.
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