Nougat/brownie marble cookies!
List of ingredients for nougat cookie dough:
140 g powdered sugar
140 g brown sugar
140 g soft butter (butter can be softened in microwave oven at 100% for 10 seconds)
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla (this be sugar or extract. Doesn't matter)
300 g flour (all purpose or cake)
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
150 g soft nougat (melted (Nougat can be melted in microwave oven at 50% for 1-2 minutes.))
Brownie cookie dough ingredients:
140 g powdered sugar
140 g brown sugar
140 g soft butter
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla
205 g flour
45 g baking cocoa
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
How to cookie:
Start with the nougat cookie dough, as you then won't have to clean as many bowls.
In a stand mixer (just because this is easier, you can use hand mixer or spoon and muscle power) mix sugars and butter until a light beige brown color and creamy consistency (3-4-ish minutes in the mixer). Scrape down at least once roughly halfway through.
Add egg and mix until incorporated. Scrape down and add the yolk. Mix and scrape and mix. (if you use vanilla extract you add it in here with the egg)
Add all the dry stuff and mix until incorporated. (if vanilla sugar you add it in here)
Take 200 g of dough and put in a separate bowl and in the fridge.
Add nougat and mix it in well.
Transfer to a bowl and put in fridge.
Repeat for brownie cookie dough (disregard points 5 and 6 for this one)
After a few hours in the fridge you can start to marble. When marbled you wrap it in cling film and put it in the fridge for a few more hours or freezer until needed. If frozen you want to thaw it completely to fridge temp and then cut it.
Preheat oven to 175 C convection oven.
Unwrap, cut to 1 cm slices (1/4 of the recipe gives roughly 12 cookies), put on baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes at 165 C until center of cookies looks baked. For more even baking set timer for 6 minutes and then turn the baking sheet 180 degrees for the last 2-4 minutes. Most ovens do not bake equally in front and back, so this helps prevent the cookies from being under- or overbaked.
The cookies grow to 1.5-2 times their size prior to baking, so make sure to leave a good amount of space between them on the baking sheet(s).
If you can't have nougat because of nuts you can just add 200 g chocolate chips to the plain dough instead of it.
I have provided some visual guide to marbling below the cut:
Your cookie doughs:
You portion them into 4 portions each. The plain (lightest) one is 50 g, the nougat and brownie ones are roughly 185 g. This is simply to make it easier to handle.
The three in bowls go in the fridge again.
You do not want to flour your work surface. Flour makes the cookie doughs not stick to each other and then you have to do three times as much work. Just make sure the surface is clean, smooth, and easy to clean and that the cookie dough is chilled.
Next you cut the brownie and nougat clumps down to roughly the size of the plain one and then you halve the plain one, like this:
Roll to equal lengths and squish together to form rectangle. Press flat for easier rolling together
Roll up starting at the top and carefully rolling.
Roll long and wrap around itself like a snail shell
Squash and repeat one or two more times depending on how well the marbling looks to you.
At the last snail shell you only roll it to a two hands width wide log. This may include slapping both ends so it doesn't get too long, as you still want the snail shell gaps to completely disappear, so you have to roll for quite a few passes.
Wrap and set cool
Always unique. And if you want small cookies you just make smaller clumps for marbling or you roll the log long shortly ahead of cutting.
This technique can be used for anything you want marbled, be it cookies or clay or marzipan or something else with that consistency. Can be used with as many colors as you like.
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