Tuesdays with Dorie BCM: Springtime Cookies and Curd with Double-Butter Double-Baked Petit Beurre Cookies
May 22, 2018 at 12:01 am | Posted in BCM, cookies & bars, groups, other sweet, pudding/mousse, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 7 CommentsTags: baking, cookies, curd
Here are both of this month’s BCM recipes in one nifty post. I’d say I love the efficiency, but actually, I had to get together a lot of bits and pieces before I could stick a spoon in this Springtime Cookies and Curd dessert and call it done. This is a layered treat…cookies, curd, rhubarb and strawberries…oh my! I began by making Double-Butter Double-Baked Petit Beurre Cookies, which I can assure you are double-good. They’re made in an unusual way, starting with buttery baked streusel-like crumbles, to which even more butter is added to hold them together into a rough dough. I knew this would be tricky to work with, so I skipped the step of rolling out the dough and then cutting and transferring delicate rounds. Instead, I pressed the dough into rings, chilled everything well and baked the cookies right in those rings.
Once the cookies were baked and cooled, I got everything else together. Sometimes the state of my fridge drives me nuts, while other times I am thankful for all the little jars of this and that I have kicking around. Taking shortcuts where you can is nothing to be ashamed of. I had passion fruit curd in the fridge already, as well as stewed rhubarb, so I used those. Rather than make a strawberry compote I just diced up some fresh berries. I put all these together in a coupe, beginning and ending with cookie bits, and it made a beautiful and delicious springtime dessert. And the cookies are fabulous on their own…very buttery, a tiny bit salty and with a texture that can’t be beat.
For the recipe, see Baking Chez Moi by Dorie Greenspan. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!
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How lucky for you to have all those bits and pieces in your fridge at any given time! This is a wonderful dessert to be able to make on the fly!
Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— May 22, 2018 #
Looks beautiful and sounds delicious!! Passionfruit, yum! I would be thrilled to take the kind of shortcuts that you do. But first I would have to do the hard work of stocking up my fridge with the kind of goodies you have in yours! 🙂
Comment by Summer— May 22, 2018 #
I am all for using what you have, particularly when, as you say, there were already lots of steps to get to the end. Your dessert looks delicious.
Comment by Cakelaw— May 22, 2018 #
Your photos are always beautiful! I love the color you got on your cookies!
Comment by Ryan— May 22, 2018 #
thank you! i’m always admiring your photos!!
Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— May 22, 2018 #
Your dessert looks wonderful and what a great idea to bake the dough in rings.
Comment by Zosia— May 23, 2018 #
Agree with everyone that your photos are great. I am glad you were able to use a few on hand ingredients to pull this dessert together. It was a fair bit of work.
Comment by Diane Zwang— May 23, 2018 #