Name: Breskvice: Croatian Peach Cookies
Prep time: 60 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 80 min
Cuisine: Croatian
Ingredients: 335g plain flour; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 2 large eggs; 160ml vegetable oil; 135g granulated sugar; 15ml whole milk; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 250g peach, apricot, or plum jam; 2 Tablespoons rum

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In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.

In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, oil, sugar, milk and vanilla extract to combine well.

Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until the dough comes together into a homogenous mixture.

Cover the bowl with plastic and chill in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Working in batches, divide the dough into teaspoon sized portions and roll into a ball with the palms of your hands. Place the cookies about 5cm (2in) apart on a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Bake the cookies at 175°C (350°F) for 12 to 15 minutes. You don’t want the cookies to brown much on the tops, but they should be golden on the bottom. Let the cookies cool to room temperature before starting on the filling.

Using a paring knife, carefully hollow out the cookies. Save the crumbs for the filling.

In a small bowl, combine the jam, rum and the crumbs from the cookies (about 140g). The texture should be thick enough that it will hold the cookies together, but thin enough to use a piping bag.

Using a piping bag or a couple of tea spoons, fill each hollowed out cookie with a rounded dollop of the jam filling.

Sandwich pairs of cookies together. The filling should hold them together.

Lay a couple layers of paper towel down on a tray or a cooling rack. Fill two small bowls partway with water. In one of the bowls add a few drops of yellow food coloring and in the other a few drops of red food dye. You can use a couple cookies to test the amount of dye needed to get the right color. Roll the cookies in the yellow food dye along the seams of the sandwich. Then dip the tops of each cookie in the red food coloring and set on the paper towel. Work quickly so the cookies don’t absorb too much moisture. Let the cookies dry on the paper towel for a while before moving on to the next stop or the sugar will clump.

Fill a small bowl with granulated sugar. Roll each cookie in the sugar to coat them evenly.

Breskvice: Croatian Peach Cookies

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