This family recipe comes from my Auntie Alkistis, the youngest sister of my dad, who was an amazing home baker with influences from Asia Minor (Mikra Asia).
This recipe is simple, super delicious with a crunchiness that is incomparable.
Of course, there are a lot of recipes for petit fours but for me this is the best!
Half filled with strawberry jam and half with apricot raspberry jam. Pretty to look at and so tasty.
INGREDIENTS:
6 eggs
1 cup of spray butter, at room temperature
1 cup sugar
3 tsp baking powder
2 tbs corn flour
1tsp vanilla extract
2 tbs cognac
2 1/2 - 3 cups of all-purpose flour
DIRECTIONS:
Preheat the oven to 190ο set to fan
In a bowl beat with a hand mixer the eggs with the butter and sugar
Add the vanilla and cognac and continue mixing for 1 more minute
Add the flour, the corn flour and the baking powder and continue mixing with your hands until you get a soft dough
Ideally, you should wear gloves
Transfer the dough on to working board and cut it in 4 pieces
Roll it on a floured surface (1/2 cm thick). and with a cookie cutter (any shape you like), cut the dough.
Bake for 12-15 minutes
Let them cool
TO ASSEMBLE:
150 g strawberry jam
150g apricot jam or
Any other filling you like (e.g., Nutella, peanut butter)
Spread the jam between the inside surface of the petit fours and cover with another
Serve
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