Kitchen Notebook
Chapter V · Cakes & Desserts

Prune Cookies in Chocolate Glaze

Crescents of a dough made with boiled egg yolks, filled with prunes, glazed with chocolate and rolled in lemon wafer crumbs.

Steps

  1. 1. Beforehand, soak the prunes in hot water and take out the stones.

  2. 2. Knead the dough, roll it out and cut circles with a small glass.

  3. 3. Put a prune on each and roll up into a crescent.

  4. 4. Bake in the oven at 180 °C.

  5. 5. For the glaze, bring the cocoa, sugar, milk and butter to the boil over low heat and switch off at once.

  6. 6. Grate the wafers.

  7. 7. Dip the baked cookies in the glaze, then in the wafer crumbs, and let them dry on a plate.