Napoleon's Hat Cookies (napoleonshatte)

Total Time: 53 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 8 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour (150 g)
• 2/3 cup icing sugar (75 g)
• 3 1/2 ounces butter, cold (100 g)
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 teaspoon cold water
• 1/2 cup marzipan (125 g, raw marzipan, not processed)
• 1/2 cup bittersweet chocolate, melted (you can use any kind of chocolate here)

Recipe

• 1 mix together flour and shifted icing sugar.
• 2 cut the butter in small pices and cut it into the flour/sugar mix until the texture is coarse.
• 3 add the egg yolk and water and quickly work the dough together.
• 4 place the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minute.
• 5 roll the marzipan into 40 small balls, set aside.
• 6 heat oven to 400°f.
• 7 roll out the cold dough on a workspace dusted with flour until the dough is very thin (0.1 inch). it should be as thin as possible without breaking.
• 8 use a cup or round cookie cutter with 2 inch diameter and cut out 40 round cookies. gather and roll out cookie dough repeatedly as you go along to use up all dough.
• 9 place one marzipan roll in the middle of each round cookie.
• 10 gather the round cookie dough with three fingers and press around the marzipan ball; the form of the cookie should now look like napoleon's hat (3 flaps sticking out).
• 11 place the 'hats' on baking sheets lined with parchment paper and bake for 8 min until sligtly golden.
• 12 let cool.
• 13 melt chocolate over a double boiler and dip the three flaps of the hat in the chocolate.
• 14 cool and enjoy!