Fiori Di Sicilia Cookies Orange ‘n White Chocolate Glaze

By mitzzy

Tiny little butter cookies, that taste like a vanilla creamsicle in a cookie. The Fiori Di Sicilia is a specialty extract that perfumes these morsels just so. I get mine from King Arthur Flour or you can make up your own (given in the recipe).

Ingredients

• Cookie Dough
• 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1/2 cup fine sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon Fiori Di Sicilia * ( or 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 tsp. orange extract, 1/4 tsp.almond extract)
• 1/8 teaspoon salt
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• Glaze
• 6-8 ounces quality white chocolate, melted
• 1/2- 1 teaspoon Fiori Di Sicilia (or orange extract or oil)

Preparation

Step 1

For sugar used in dusting: pulverize about ½ cup in a food processor before you start recipe to have a finer sugar for dusting.

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Stack two large baking sheets together and line the top one with parchment paper. Set aside.

In a food processor, pulse the butter and sugar together to make a crumbly mixture, and then process longer, to make a creamed, pasty mixture, a couple of minutes. Add in the egg and the extract. Blend well and then add in the flour. Blend a minute or two until it clumps but does not hold together.

Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured board. Press together to make a smooth dough. Divide in half. Roll each half out about 1/8 inch thin. Cut in little discs about 1 ½ inch (you can make them thicker, or larger but this was a nice size).

Place the cookies on the baking sheet and bake until browned around the edges and beginning to color on the tops, 12-16 minutes.

Cool well.

For the glaze, gently melt the chocolate in a bowl over steaming water. Whisk in the extract to blend. Smear white chocolate on each cookie and let set.

Makes about 60 cookies or so – but really tiny ones.