I have been eyeing to bake this recipe for quite awhile......at first I was thinking of using pineapple as filling....and everyday I've been looking, and looking at this recipe but lazy bug was inside me and wasn't even feeling wanted to lift up my legs to stand long hours in the kitchen. But at last, it was the kumquat makes me do it!
Kumquat
Almond Pie Cookies
Recipe inspired from Sweet Explorations
Ingredients
226g
butter, room temperature
160g
sugar
1 egg
1 tsp
vanilla extract
3 cups (I
used 420g) plain flour
Filling
½ cup
Kumquat Jam *
(puree
the sweetened kumquat with 2 tbsp almond meal)
Method
In a bowl
of electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar on medium speed till soft and
fluffy. Add in egg and vanilla extract. Add in all the flour on low speed till dough
comes together.
Divide
the dough equally into 2 and wrap each dough in between plastic wrap and
refrigerate at least 30 minutes.
Preheat
oven to 180Celcius.
Roll out
dough and using your cookie cutter, cut out round or square shape to
your likings (I used a 3" round cutter). Sandwich in between with 2
tsp Kumquat Almond Jam and light press to seal the edges.
Bake the
cookies for 12 minutes or lightly brown at edges.
* To make the Kumquat Jam
20 kumquats
Sugar
Water
Weigh kumquats and prepare half amount of water (in weight) and half amount of sugar (ratio: 2:1:1, kumquat:water:sugar, eg : 200gm:100gm:100gm)
Slice half kumquats and remove seeds. Put cleaned kumquats, sugar and water into a saucepan and cook (on medium heat) until the kumquat looks glossy and soft.
Sugar
Water
Weigh kumquats and prepare half amount of water (in weight) and half amount of sugar (ratio: 2:1:1, kumquat:water:sugar, eg : 200gm:100gm:100gm)
Slice half kumquats and remove seeds. Put cleaned kumquats, sugar and water into a saucepan and cook (on medium heat) until the kumquat looks glossy and soft.
My cookies didn't do that good compare to Francois of SweetExplorations, as the top was not smooth looking compare to his! BUT.....nevertheless it was good in taste the cookies! I wasn't really happy the result of my cookies and was not prepare to post to share it out but the yummylicious make me do it!
YUM!
