Matcha, Pistachio & White Choc Chip Cookie
Stuffed with pink white choc ganache topped with dried rose petals and pistachio orange zest brittle
Recipe By: Chevonne Fourie
Portions: Makes 6 cookies
INGREDIENTS:
Cookie dough
125g Clover butter
100g brown sugar
75g white sugar
3 eggs
5ml vanilla essence
300g cake flour
15ml baking powder
1g salt
45ml matcha powder
Green food colouring
100g white chocolate chips
100g toasted pistachio nuts
½ cup finely ground roasted pistachio nuts
Pistachio brittle
1 cup sugar
¼ cup water
50g roasted pistachio nuts
Zest of one orange
Salt
Choc ganache filling
300g white chocolate
1/3 cup full cream
pink food colouring
Toppings / Garnish
Dried rose petals
50g white chocolate
METHOD:
Pink chocolate ganache filling
- To a glass bowl add the cream, chocolate and pink food colouring.
- Melt over a double boiler until smooth.
- Pour into a bowl and set in the fridge until set.
- Once set, spoon and weigh out 20g balls of filling, store on a tray in the freezer until use.
Cookie Dough
- In the kitchen aid cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add in the eggs and vanilla, mix well.
- In a bowl mix the flour, baking powder, salt, matcha powder and fine pistachio powder together.
- Add the flour mix into the butter mixture. Mix until combined.
- Add in the roasted pistachios and chocolate chips. Mix through.
- Weigh out 120g balls, flatten and stuff with one of the weighed-out filling rolling the dough around the filling evenly.
- Rest in the freezer for at least 30 minutes.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 15 – 17 minutes. (more frozen will bake longer)
- Remove from the oven and cool.
Pistachio brittle:
- Place the sugar and water into a pot. Melt over very low heat until completely dissolved.
- Once dissolved, bring to a high heat and simmer until amber brown.
- Pour the sugar out on to a Silpat mat in a thin even layer.
- Sprinkle with roasted pistachio nuts, salt and orange zest.
- Once sugar has cooled enough to touch but still hot, pull into thin shards.
- Leave to set.
Assembling the cookie:
- Drizzle the cookie with melted white chocolate.
- Sprinkle with dried rose petals top with pieces of the brittle shards.
- Blend the remaining of the brittle until a chunky powder and sprinkle the cookies and plate for decoration.