The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.
Cookies!! I just love cookies as most people do. They are fun and simple and just plain ole good. But this months challenge was not your run of the mill cookie it was Milan and Mallow cookies. Though I didn’t get to make the Mallow cookies as my time was short this month, I did make the Milan cookie. Which are now a household favorite. I just loved this recipe. The citrus twang and soft sweetness of the cookie with a chocolate filling, I’m in love and a perfect complement to a good cup of joe. In fact I ate most of this recipe all by myself, but please don’t tell anyone!! Now on to the recipe so you can treat yourself to a wonderful cookie.
Milan Cookie Ingredients: 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar, 7/8 cup egg whites (from about 6 eggs), 2 tablespoons vanilla extract, 2 tablespoons lemon extract, 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
Start off by creaming together the butter and powdered sugar
Then separate each egg white (save your yolks for another recipe, or just feed them to the dogs like I did they will love you forever)
Once butter and sugar are creamed, slowly add the egg whites
Be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl after
Next add both your vanilla and lemon extract
Then slowly add in the flour
Mixing until well incorporated and be sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl again
Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper and pipe out 1 inch strips of the cookie batter
Be sure they are at least 2 inches apart or they will turn out like this!
While the cookies are baking lets start on the chocolate filling
Cookie filling: 1/2 cup heavy cream, 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped, • 1 orange, zested
Zest your Orange
Then in a small sauce pan pour in your cream over medium-high heat
Heat until scalding, which basically means bubbling
Then in a glass bowl add your chocolate chips, and pour your scalded cream over the top
Add your orange zest
and whisk until chocolate is melted
Once your cookies have cooled from the oven, take one piece and spread a generous amount of chocolate on top, and then cover with another similarly shaped cookie
Enjoy right there or set aside to cool
These cookies are light, citrusy and sweet.
They are the perfect treat in the morning with your coffee
or the afternoon
or even the evening, not that I would ever do that!!
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For your pleasure I had added both the Mallow and Milan cookie recipes. Enjoy!
Mallows(Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies)
Recipe courtesy Gale Gand, from Food Network website
Prep Time: 10 min
Inactive Prep Time: 5 min
Cook Time: 10 min
Serves: about 2 dozen cookies
• 3 cups (375grams/13.23oz) all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup (112.5grams/3.97oz) white sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 12 tablespoons (170grams/ 6 oz) unsalted butter
• 3 eggs, whisked together
• Homemade marshmallows, recipe follows
• Chocolate glaze, recipe follows
1. In a mixer with the paddle attachment, blend the dry ingredients.
2. On low speed, add the butter and mix until sandy.
3. Add the eggs and mix until combine.
4. Form the dough into a disk, wrap with clingfilm or parchment and refrigerate at least 1 hour and up to 3 days.
5. When ready to bake, grease a cookie sheet or line it with parchment paper or a silicon mat.
6. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
7. Roll out the dough to 1/8-inch thickness, on a lightly floured surface. Use a 1 to 1 1/2 inches cookie cutter to cut out small rounds of dough.
8. Transfer to the prepared pan and bake for 10 minutes or until light golden brown. Let cool to room temperature.
9. Pipe a “kiss” of marshmallow onto each cookie. Let set at room temperature for 2 hours.
10. Line a cookie sheet with parchment or silicon mat.
11. One at a time, gently drop the marshmallow-topped cookies into the hot chocolate glaze.
12. Lift out with a fork and let excess chocolate drip back into the bowl.
13. Place on the prepared pan and let set at room temperature until the coating is firm, about 1 to 2 hours.
Note: if you don’t want to make your own marshmallows, you can cut a large marshmallow in half and place on the cookie base. Heat in a preheated 350-degree oven to slump the marshmallow slightly, it will expand and brown a little. Let cool, then proceed with the chocolate dipping.
Homemade marshmallows:
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup light corn syrup
• 3/4 cup (168.76 grams/5.95oz) sugar
• 1 tablespoon powdered gelatin
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• 2 egg whites , room temperature
• 1/4 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1. In a saucepan, combine the water, corn syrup, and sugar, bring to a boil until “soft-ball” stage, or 235 degrees on a candy thermometer.
2. Sprinkle the gelatin over the cold water and let dissolve.
3. Remove the syrup from the heat, add the gelatin, and mix.
4. Whip the whites until soft peaks form and pour the syrup into the whites.
5. Add the vanilla and continue whipping until stiff.
6. Transfer to a pastry bag.
Chocolate glaze:
• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 2 ounces cocoa butter or vegetable oil
1. Melt the 2 ingredients together in the top of a double boiler or a bowl set over barely simmering water.
Print This RecipeMilan Cookies
Recipe courtesy Gale Gand, from Food Network websitePrep Time: 20 min
Inactive Prep Time: 0 min
Cook Time: 1 hr 0 min
Serves: about 3 dozen cookies• 12 tablespoons (170grams/ 6 oz) unsalted butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups (312.5 grams/ 11.02 oz) powdered sugar
• 7/8 cup egg whites (from about 6 eggs)
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons lemon extract
• 1 1/2 cups (187.5grams/ 6.61 oz) all purpose flour
• Cookie filling, recipe followsCookie filling:
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 orange, zested1. In a mixer with paddle attachment cream the butter and the sugar.
2. Add the egg whites gradually and then mix in the vanilla and lemon extracts.
3. Add the flour and mix until just well mixed.
4. With a small (1/4-inch) plain tip, pipe 1-inch sections of batter onto a parchment-lined sheet pan, spacing them 2 inches apart as they spread.
5. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 10 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges. Let cool on the pan.
6. While waiting for the cookies to cool, in a small saucepan over medium flame, scald cream.
7. Pour hot cream over chocolate in a bowl, whisk to melt chocolate, add zest and blend well.
8. Set aside to cool (the mixture will thicken as it cools).
9. Spread a thin amount of the filling onto the flat side of a cookie while the filling is still soft and press the flat side of a second cookie on top.
10. Repeat with the remainder of the cookies.Please be sure to check out the other daring bakers here!
Love your step by step photos! I also had a few afternoon treats of the Milan cookies and a cup of coffee…and maybe more than one evening treat. Great job!
Your cookies look great! That photo of the bowl of chocolate is dangerous at snack time!
wow — those look great! I love the idea of making them yourself — I’ve never tried these “famous” cookies due to allergies, but now I can make them myself!! Thanks!
Just love how you showed the ‘one large’ milano clearly you mastered the piping of them. Your final ones look so delish and great to hear that they are the family fav’s it is so nice when this happens. Wonderful series of pixs clearly shows the process. Cheers from Audax in Australia
Your Milans look just like Pepperidge Farm’s Milanos! Awesome job…. and your step by step photos are perfect!
Yum!! I don’t even drink coffee, but that photo makes me want to start doing so, with a big stack of milanos!
MMMM now I want cookies…hehe
Wow!!! Yum!! They both look amazing!
Those sound awesome! Wish I would have known about the challenge, I would have joined in.
Thanks for sharing!
~Liz
Wow, they look great!! The Milan could pass for the Pepperidge Farms version that I like to buy. You are such a talented cook!
Those cookies look so good! Hope you plan on making those again for Christmas.
Great job on the challenge and the photos! I especially like the photos with the cookies and the coffee…looks so artistic!
Great photos! Those cookies look so delicious!
You did beautifully on the Milanos! Pretty & perfect! Well done. i did just the Mallows, & fell in ♥ with them!
You and your yummy tackles!
OMG! Do those cookies look delicious or what?????
Wow, if it weren’t so hot today, I’d go home and bake up a batch of these. Instead I’ll save the recipe and give them a try in the fall. Thanks for sharing!
Wow! Beautiful job on this challenge – Your cookies look amazing =D. Love the photos!!
I love Milan cookies… so I just HAVE to try to make these! Thanks for sharing! You always have such great photos with your recipes.
These look so delicious…thanks for the recipe.
Thanks for two very delicious cookie recipes. I love Pepperidge Farm’s Milanos. We have a factory about 2.5 hours away and we sometimes go to their seconds store and if we are lucky, we can get some Milanos- among other seconds.
I can’t wait to try these, so I am bookmarking them. Have a great weekend.
Shari
Delicious looking- wish I could sit down with a cup of tea and one of those yummy cookies right now… Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I love to buy these cookies. Now to don’t have to, because I have your recipe. THANKS!!! for the recipe. Geri
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I don’t believe I’ve had these before. They sound yummy!
My goodness! You are soooo ambitious! I love Milan cookies, but I don’t know if I have the gumption to make them myself. Maybe at Christmas time?
Oh, my goodness.. Milan’s are my favorite storebought cookie, but I never buy them. Now I can make them. Thanks!