My family adores pailleté feuilletine, the crushed wheat wafers that I use to add crunch to our milk chocolate treats.
The problem though is that in order to get it at a reasonable price, I buy it in bulk from Chefs’ Warehouse, and then I struggle to use it all up before it goes stale or passes its expiration date. So last week, I tried adding my last cup of feuilletine to a cookie dough. The results were quite delicious, giving the cookie an extra crispy texture…
I used a mix of three types of chocolate – Amedei Toscana Nut Brown (hazelnut), Amedei Toscana Black 63%, and Callebaut 44% cacao baking sticks…
- 300g (2 cups) plain (AP) flour
- pinch of fine sea salt
- ½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 110g (½ cup) white sugar
- 100g (½ cup, packed) brown sugar
- 185g (¾ cup) unsalted butter
- 1 large (59g) free range egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used homemade)
- 75g (1 cup) pailleté feuilletine (*see note below)
- 250g (about 1½ cups) chocolate chunks
* These cookies were inspired by an old Mrs Field’s recipe, which used a cup of crispy rice cereal – if you can’t track down some feuilletine, you might want to try that instead (but I haven’t, so I can’t guarantee how it will work).
1. Preheat oven to 150C (300F) with fan. Sift together the flour, salt and bicarb (if you sift nothing else, make sure you sift the bicarb). Stir in the feuilletine (gently!) and the chocolate chunks.
2. In a large mixing bowl, beat together the butter and both sugars until just combined, then beat in the egg and vanilla.
3. Add the flour mixture, feuilletine and chocolate, and beat on the lowest speed until just combined, being careful not to overmix the batter.
4. Shape the dough into walnut sized balls (I used a small icecream scoop) and lay these on parchment lined baking trays, allowing room for a little spreading. Bake for 18 – 20 minutes, then immediately transfer to a wire rack to cool.
The cookies were a big hit with Pete and Small Man, but please note that they’re best eaten within a day or so of being made. They’re a nice change from all the slice cookies we’ve been making recently!
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Clever way to use up excess making material! Now do you have ideas for mince pie filling? :-P
Saucy, we never make mince pie – that might have to be on the list of things to try next year! :)
love this scrumptious tower of cookies! wish I had a few in front of me!
Azita, wish I could share them with you! :)
Who’s talking about sharing? I’d gobble all of them! ha ha, kidding … kind of ;)
Hi Celia, You sure know how to cook with chocolate :)
Thanks Glenda, there always seems to be so much of it in the house! ;-)
Those would go very well with the cup of tea I’m drinking!
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Ooh, now that’s a nice thought Misky. Morning tea, I’d bring the cookies.. :)
These sound delicious. I’ve recently found a UK source for feuilletine, so might be tempted to try these when I get back to baking. We’ve lots of Christmas treats to tackle yet, and weight to lose, so it might be a while before I do much baking!
Suelle, the feuilletine is nice in chocolate than in cookies, but these were very good for the first couple of days or so. Then they seems to lose their crunch a bit! Hope you’ve had a great start to 2014! xx
These sound delicious. I think I may have eaten rather too much chocolate over Christmas as I skipped right past that pile of chocolate without lingering. Must be a first.
Hahaha…we’re in chocolate overload a bit too, Anne! Which is probably not a bad thing, really.. :)
There wouldn’t be a problem eating these in a day I am sure!
Francesca, thank you, they really didn’t last very long! :)
My god do they know how lucky they are ?. What a cookie Celia, they must be delicious x
Wouldn’t have been without all your glorious chocolate darling, thanks again! xx
Oh how I used to love baking cookies or biscuits for my children, Celia… your boys, Pete included, are very lucky! Great way to stop waste too, by using before the expiry date.
Lizzy, it was nice to get to the end of the packet – feuilletine doesn’t weigh very much, so when you have to buy a couple of kilos at a time, you end up with a huge bagful! :)
Goodness these look so good, I don’t think they would last longer than a day! :)
Thanks Stefanie! They didn’t last much longer than that, really.. :)
oh yum Celia. I could two or ten of them right now.
Thanks B! I had a few more than I should have… :)
Just finished dinner, those cookies would make a lovely ending to my meal. But since I cannot have any, I need to look around the house for some chocolate to satisfy my needs.
Norma, I’m sorry to do that to you! :) Hope you found some chocolate! xx
Hehe I love it too but yes I’m still working on that enormous bag that you so kindly gifted me. It’s so delicious in baked goods! :D
It’s such an interesting product, isn’t it? I find it hard to beat adding it to milk chocolate – everyone loves it so much like that!
Love that tower Celia! Delicious.
Thanks Jane! They were very good – the boys loved them!
Your boys will never wantt to move out Celia! Such yumminess and chocolate sounds delicious for sure xox
Becca, maybe they’ll still let me bake cookies for them when they do move out…we can only hope.. :) xxx
They look delicious Celia :-)
Thanks Sandy! :)
With all that good chocolate I’m sure there’s no problem them being eaten within a day or two of being made :)
Nancy, they didn’t last long! Hope you’ve been having a lovely holiday! xx
My goodness but these are decadent! I’m very fond of decadent chocolate cookies. :-) Lovely!
Thank you! They were a bit over the top! ;-)
The cookies look so decadent and delicious!
Thank you! :)
Those look fantastic – three type of chocolate :D. I’ve eaten so much chocolate recently.
Nick, it’s the time of year, isn’t it? Our kitchen has been awash with it! Hope you’ve had a great start to the new year!
What fabulous cookies! That you made them from leftovers makes my head go nutty. :)
Maureen, it’s a worry, isn’t it…imagine how much of everything I have in the kitchen for chocolate and feuilletine to be leftover.. :D
Drool. :-)
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I just love reading of all the creative ways you find to make chocolate happiness (that’s what I call anything that has chocolate and puts a smile on my face). I love the balancing act you did with the cookies too Celia.
Thanks Diane! The tower stayed up long enough for a photo…just.. :)
Scrumptious! This is my kind of cookie.
Have a happy day.
:-) Mandy xo