Petit fours Eid cookies. Petit fours Eid cookies Mai Tarek United Kingdom. Using the electric mixer, Mix butter and sugar then add the yolks and Vanilla. Egyptian butter cookies, petit fours or as we like to pronounce betefour, are one of those holiday cookies that everyone loves. These holiday classics are made even better and festive dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with nuts. These butter cookies are kid and adult friendly.
Vanilla and Chocolate Butter Cookies (Petit Fours).
The are made in Egypt as part of Ramadan and Eid holidays.
They are delicious buttery cookies that can be with vanilla/chocolate/or mixed.
You can cook Petit fours Eid cookies using 7 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Petit fours Eid cookies
- It's 1/2 cup of icing sugar (80g).
- It's 1 cup of room temperature butter (200 g).
- You need 2 cups of plain flour (250-270 g).
- Prepare 2 of egg yolks.
- It's of Vanilla.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
- You need 2 tbs of milk if needed.
They can also be filled with nutella, fruit jam, or chocolate. Sugar cookies shaped as crescents, masjids, lanterns and stars. The traditional petit four Eid cookies and " maamool " that we usually make are a more labor intensive, persnickety cookie so I had to come up with a more kid friendly, hands on alternative. Betefour, Eid cookies Eid cookies that is very popular in Egypt.
Petit fours Eid cookies instructions
- Using the electric mixer, Mix butter and sugar then add the yolks and Vanilla.
- Add the flour and mix untill getting a soft dough, if you need chocolate dough you can keep two tbs from the flour and add cocoa powder instead.
- Use the pipes to make the shapes.
- Put in a preheated oven at 180 c for 12-15 minutes.
- Take them out, leave them cold then use jam to stick them and decorate with chocolate sauce, sprinkles, pistachio and wholenut..
Fill a pastry bag using the star tip and form cookies in the shape you want. Just make sure they are the same size. Place in a plate to cool down. In the meantime, in a bain marie, melt the chocolate and keep it warm. She'll show you how to spread the layers with fillings and coat them with a layer of frosting.