Tropical Cookies with Mango & Passion Fruit Curd
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These sweet vegan are sandwiched between a mixture of mango and passionfruit curd. The sweet sugars help balance out the tart flavor of the curd.
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ingredients
Vanilla cookies
- 300 grams all- purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon pink salt
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 80 grams icing sugar
- 150 grams unsalted butter/
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- 3 tablespoons cold unsweetened plant milk
ingredients
For the mango & passion fruit curd
- 1 cup mango purée
- 2 teaspoons marigold passion fruit powder
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
- 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 60 grams vegan butter/ butter
Method
Curd
Step 1
Peel and chop mango and blend together with passion fruit powder until smooth. Pass through a sieve for a smoother texture.
Step 2
In a small saucepan, whisk sugar and corn starch. Add vanilla, lemon juice and mango/ passion fruit purée and whisk to combine. Heat over medium heat.
Step 3
Add butter 1 tbsp at time and cook on medium whisking continuously until it starts to thicken. - about 30 min. Transfer to a heat proof container to cool. Store in the fridge for up to 1 week. It will thicken more as it cools.
Step 4
Store in the fridge for up to 1 week. It will thicken more as it cools.
Cookies
Step 1
In the bowl of a food processor, add flour, icing sugar, salt and lemon zest. Pulse a couple of times to combine. Add cubed cold butter and pulse a few times until it looks like bread crumbs.
Step 2
Add vanilla and plant milk one tbsp at a time and mix until the dough comes together.
Step 3
The dough should be soft, but not sticky.
Step 4
Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Preheat your oven to 180C degrees.
Step 5
Cut out cookie shapes with cookie cutters. Use a mini cutter to cut out the center of half of the cookies. Re-roll the remaining dough and continue cutting until all the dough is used.
Step 6
Arrange cookies on lined baking trays. Let cookies cool on the baking sheet for 2 mins before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 7
To assemble, spread 1 tsp of mango& passion fruit curd over the bottom of one cookie and gently press a cut-out center cookie on top.