Tuesdays with Dorie BCM: Cat’s Tongues

August 27, 2019 at 9:06 am | Posted in BCM, cookies & bars, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 10 Comments
Tags: baking, cookies

Cat’s Tongues, or langues de chat, are a French classic. Thin, crispy, buttery yummies– I don’t think I’ve made them since I was in cooking school. Luckily, they aren’t hard to mix up and pipe out, and the oven more or less takes care of the shape. These baked up perfectly…nice elongated ovals, pale in the middle with a ring of crispy brown around the edges. I did actually pipe them out a little too big. They could have been a bit daintier in size and I would have gotten a few more out of the batch. The ones that came out the smallest, I paired up and sandwiched together with some ganache, as per Dorie’s excellent suggestion to “Milano” them. I’ll leave the larger ones as singles, spread their undersides with tempered chocolate tomorrow at work and give them to the guys at the gym in the afternoon. A plan for everything. Hahaha.

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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Yours are perfect and I love that you take cookies to the gym. I am always taking my baking elsewhere (otherwise I’d eat it all!).

Comment by Mardi (eat. live. travel. write.)— August 27, 2019 #

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- me, too– especially with cookies. bake a half recipe and then give half of them away!
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— August 27, 2019 #
  
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  - They look utterly delicious with the browned edges nd now I really wish I hadn’t run out of time to bake them with the group. They seem to be just the kind of simple cookie that I like to eat.
    
    Comment by Summer— August 27, 2019 #
Ganache in between them sounds devine – what a treat.

Comment by Cakelaw— August 27, 2019 #

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I love your thorough plan 🙂

Comment by isthisakeeper— August 27, 2019 #

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Oh these look yum!

Comment by lovielou— August 27, 2019 #

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Mine got soft really fast so they were not crispy. The Milano version was the best. And those guys at the gym are really lucky.

Comment by Diane Zwang— August 27, 2019 #

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Oh, they look delicious!

Comment by Zosia— August 28, 2019 #

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Hi Stef! I’m so glad you are still blogging. I was going through my old posts to figure out when I started blogging which I knew was close to 10 years ago. And I found that my first post was a Daring Baker’s challenge set by you. We made vol au vents from Baking with Julia. These cat’s tongue cookies look delicious. Happy baking!

Comment by marcellinaincucina.com— September 2, 2019 #

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- oh my gosh– thanks for writing! we have been at it a long time, haven’t we? OG food bloggers right here! xoxox
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— September 3, 2019 #
  
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