Today I bring some cookies that combine the holiday season with the tropical spirit of Brazil: coconut and passion fruit flowers!
The combination of coconut and passion fruit is very pleasant and the passion fruit icing was quite a nice surprise. In fact, usually I just make simple cookies, but in this post I wanted to make something special, where the sugar was the star and the acid tang of the passion fruit pulp cuts any excessive sweetness that the icing may bring!
Ingredients:
150 g sugar
1 egg
100 g butter
300 g flour
1 tbsp baking powder
60 g grated coconut (unsweetened)
4 tsp passion fruit pulp
175 g icing sugar
2 tbsp passion fruit pulp
About 20 minutes before starting the preparation of the recipe, put all ingredients at room temperature. Prepare the passion fruit pulp, removing the pulp inside the fruit and process it in the blender, after which it must be strained to separate the seeds. If using sour passion fruit (big and yellow) one fruit would be enough. If using the sweet passion fruit (small and purple), will be needed two or three fruits.
In a large bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder, sugar and grated coconut. Break the butter into cubes and crumble along with the solid ingredients until you have a homogeneous mixture. beat the egg and add it the passion fruit pulp. Add it to the mixture and mix well, until became a smooth dough. Cover the bowl with film and store in the fridge for one hour. Then extend and cut the biscuits with the cutter of your choosing. Bake them in the middle zone of the oven on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. remove when they are slightly gold and cool on a rack. prepare the icing by mixing the icing sugar with the passion fruit pulp, stirring vigorously until it forms a thick cream. Spread on the cookies and let dry.
These cookies are delicious to give as a present or just to have at home to your family or friends, or to ourselves whenever we need something sweet!
Just let me which you a happy 2012 full of sweet moments!
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