Chocolate Macadamia Nut Kisses

Inspired by the Italian classical baci di dama, pastry cook Pichet Ong's mentation is made with Hawaiian macadamia nuts. The look has much adust ingredients than accustomed owed to the higher moisture and abdominous contented of the nuts, which besides results successful a little magnitude of sugar.

You tin substitute an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend without changing the spirit oregon texture of the cookie. For chocolate-flavored cookies, see the cocoa pulverization successful the dough (or disagreement the dough successful fractional and usage fractional the magnitude of cocoa pulverization to person immoderate of each benignant of cookie).

This look makes treble the magnitude of ganache you'll astir apt request for filling the sandwiches. You tin usage the other to marque different batch of cookies oregon to marque truffles — simply rotation into balls and overgarment with your prime of toppings, specified arsenic cocoa powder, crushed freeze-dried berries and/or finely chopped nuts, earlier refrigerating. You tin besides halve the ganache recipe.

If you'd alternatively not marque the ganache (though we highly urge you do), you tin capable the sandwich cookies with melted cocoa oregon a cocoa spread, specified arsenic Nutella.

The shaped dough tin beryllium refrigerated for up to 3 days. The baked cookies tin beryllium stored astatine country somesthesia successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 3 days.

The ganache needs to remainder astatine country somesthesia for astatine slightest 3 hours, but ideally overnight, to execute the champion texture for piping.

From pastry cook Pichet Ong.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per sandwich cookie, utilizing fractional the ganache

• Calories

  298

• Fat

  19 g

• Saturated Fat

  9 g

• Carbohydrates

  33 g

• Sodium

  77 mg

• Cholesterol

  29 mg

• Protein

  2 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  16 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From pastry cook Pichet Ong.

Tested by Becky Krystal.