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Viennese Finger Cookie

Posted by Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights

Viennese Fingers is a delicate shortbread type of cookie with the ends dipped in rich, milk chocolate. A classic teatime treat.This is one of my most favourite biscuits to munch on. It melts in your mouth and goes so well with a hot drink. I guarantee your cookie tin won’t stay full for long!

For best results use pure butter at room temperature. Gradually add the flour to get a soft dough. I use a large star nozzle to pipe my cookies. It’s quite easy to make these impressive cookies with few ingredients.

Chocolate Dipped Viennese Biscuits

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Ingredients:

500g cake / plain / all-purpose flour

250g soft butter

1 cup cooking oil

1 cup icing sugar

4 dessert spoons custard powder

Method:

Cream the soft butter, oil and icing sugar in a large mixing bowl.

Stir in the custard powder and gradually add the flour. Mix well to form soft dough.

Use a nozzle to pipe “fingers”. If you find it easier transfer the dough into a strong piping bag. Otherwise just take pieces of dough in your hand and use your hand and fingers to push the dough through the nozzle. I use a large star nozzle for this.

Pipe directly onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. I always use parchment paper to line my sheets to prevent my cookies and bakes from sticking. I never grease my baking trays.

Bake in a pre- heated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until light golden in colour.

Leave to cool in the baking sheet for 10 minutes before gently transferring onto a cooling rack to cool completely.

Meanwhile melt your chocolate in the microwave in bursts of 30 seconds until melted.

I recommend a glass bowl with the chocolate broken into chunks.
Then 30 second heat burst – take it out and stir.
Repeat until just melted – always using 30 second burst of the microwave before stirring or you will burn the chocolate.

Alternatively, melt on the stove top using a bain-marie.

How to melt chocolate in bain-marie

Place a bowl over a pot of simmering water. Make sure the bowl is very clean and does not have any moisture in it or else the chocolate will split.
Warning – The bowl should not touch the surface of the water at all.
Chop up the chocolate into small pieces and place in the bowl.
Stir with a spatula. Always use a spatula so that no bubbles form.
When the chocolate almost melts, remove bowl from heat and place on a towel.
Stir with spatula until every last piece of chocolate melts completely.
Transfer to a serving bowl and the melted chocolate is ready to use as needed.

Dip the ends in melted cooking chocolate.

Dip in crushed nuts optional