The spiced twisted cookies have a double flavor, half of the dough is scented with cocoa and orange peel (it’s always a winning combination 
), the other half is flavored with vanilla and cardamom 
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The two parts of the dough not only have two different flavors, but also two colors, a great way to create a cute tangled effect that will make your cookies awesome. We need anything else to convince you to prepare them? Of course not … So look for the flour and sugar in the pantry and let’s get started .
Do you think you may have already saw and tasted them? If this morning you were at Maison & Loisir, you cannot help recognizing these cute cookies, because we have just finished preparing them together with a large group of kids during the stage “Baby masterchef”. We hope you enjoyed the stage as much as we had and we will definitely see you next year .
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Spiced twisted cookies with orange and cocoa
Ingredients
For the dough
- 150 g flour
- 100 g of brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 40 g butter
- 1/2 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
For the spiced variant
- 1/2 vanilla bean
- 2 cardamom pods
For the orange and cocoa variant
- zest of 1/4 orange
- 2 teaspoons of cocoa
Instructions
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Mix flour, sugar, salt and baking powder.
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Add the butter at room temperature and finally the egg.
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Divide the dough in half.
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In the first half, add the seed of vanilla and ground cardamom.
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In the second half, add the grated orange zest and cocoa.
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Let them rest about twenty minutes in the fridge.
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Take the doughs and form some small rolls about 0.5 cm thick and 7-8 cm long.
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Pair a chocolate roll with a vanilla one, tangle them and close the cookie to form a circle.
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Arrange the biscuits on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and cake them at 180 °C for 9 minutes.