Baci di Dama (Italian Hazelnut Cookies)

Name: Baci di Dama (Italian Hazelnut Cookies)
Yield: Makes 32 sandwich cookies
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 3/4 cup, hazelnuts, toasted and partially skinned; 2/3 cup (3½ ounces; 99 grams), all-purpose flour; 1/3 cup (2⅓ ounces; 66 grams), sugar; 1/8 teaspoon, table salt; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled; 2 ounces (57 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2019, America's Test Kitchen TV

Desserts or Baked Goods

Italian

Holiday

These Lilliputian Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are utterly charming—but only if they're perfect. Our approach makes it easy to get them just right.

SERVESMakes 32 sandwich cookies

TIME1¼ hours, plus 1 hour cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

These tiny Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are typically made from a very rich, fragile dough that easily softens and crumbles when you roll it. Reducing the amount of butter and nuts in the dough made it firmer but still plenty...

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