DAY Recipe

(Teules de Taronja)
These crisp cookies are shaped like the terra-cotta roof tiles, teules (tejas in Castilian Spanish), that top village houses—old and new—throughout Spain.
Almonds are a common ingredient in Catalan cookies, but we took another cue from the Moors and added candied orange.
Active time: 1 hr Start to finish: 1 hr

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INGREDIENTS
Wafer
1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup whipping cream
2 cups sifted flour
Filling
1/4 cup softened butter
3/4 cup confectioners’ sugar
1egg white
1 teaspoon vanilla

DIRECTIONS

Mix butter, cream and flour.
Chill mixture for two hours.
Roll one half of the dough at a time, keeping the rest chilled. Roll dough 1/8 inch thick on floured board.
Cut into circles. Transfer rounds to waxed paper heavily covered with granulated sugar. Turn each round so that each round is covered on both [...]

INGREDIENTS

1 (8ounce)package reduced-fat cream cheese , softened
1/3 cup butter , softened
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
3/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons brown sugar
3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup finely chopped pecans , toasted
2 (9ounce)boxes of nabisco chocolate wafers

DIRECTIONS

Beat first 3 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugars, beating until blended. Stir in chocolate morsels and pecans.
Spread about 1 tablespoons cream cheese mixture evenly on 1 side of a chocolate wafer; top with [...]

INGREDIENTS

200 g parmesan cheese
4ripe figs
8 slices prosciutto

DIRECTIONS

Heat the oven to 180°C Lay an egg ring on a non-stick tray. Sprinkle an even layer of grated parmesan inside the ring.Remove the ring and use it to make a second wafer next to the first. Use these first two wafers as your guinea pigs, because you may have to adjust the heat [...]

INGREDIENTS

2 tablespoons currants
1 tablespoon hot water
2 teaspoons rum extract
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/3 cup all-purpose flour

DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 425`.

Combine Currants, Hot Water and Rum Extract in a small bowl; let stand for 1 hour.

Cream Butter and Sugar together. Add Egg and beat till light and fluffy.

Stir in Currant mixture and Flour.

Drop flour in tiny mounds onto a greased cookie sheet. (Emphasis on TINY - these are supposed [...]