Italian rainbow cookies12/28/2023 The recipe (from America’s Test Kitchen’s newest tome entitled The Perfect Cookie) originally calls for raspberry jam, but I substituted apricot (you’ll find recipes calling for both, so feel free to use either). And when it’s all done with you end up with a surprising number of cookies, so the effort in terms of overall output is definitely worth it. The most time consuming part is baking the 3 layers (cooling the baking pan each time, unless you happen to have multiple 13-by-9-inch pans in which case your job will be far easier) and then cutting them into even rectangles (you do have a ruler in the kitchen, don’t you?) But the layering itself was not hard, quicker than assembling a layer cake. Some may say these cookies are more effort than they are worth, but I found them easier than I expected. I mean, why are they called cookies anyway? Srsly. More like a petit four really than a cookie, with 3 layers of tender almond sponge cake with tart apricot jam in between, and a snappy chocolate glaze. He doesn’t always resort to superlatives, but after downing a few of these he firmly declared them the ‘best thing I’ve ever made’… a truth that’s evidenced by just how quickly the entire 13-by-9 pan of cookies disappeared.Įxcept he took serious issue with the fact that these are called cookies. I decided to do just that, eschewing the classic red-yellow-green for a pastel ombre effect in shades of soft turquoise blue. I get it’s supposed to be the Italian flag and all, but why are these cookies, no matter what they’re called, always the same 3 colors? Can’t we have a little fun with it for once? I’ve seen them called Italian Rainbow cookies, Tricolor cookies, Venetian cookies, Neapolitan cookies, and Italian 7-Layer cookies (when they have chocolate on the top and bottom there are 7 distinct layers, I guess?) With all those different names you can bet it’s got a few fake passports stashed under the floorboards. (Luckily, this cookie doesn’t go around assassinating foreign diplomats, bad analogy, but you get my point…) Here we have the Jason Bourne of cookies: a cookie with many different names, and ultimately, its entire identity as a cookie is false because, oh hey, it’s actually a cake.
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