HALLOWEEN SPIDERS - CHOCOLATE FILLED COOKIES

Identity Card of the Recipe

276 KCal Calories per serving

Ingrediants

For the pastry

110 g of white flour of type 00
2 g of baking powder
20 g of bitter cocoa
1 pinch of salt
15 ml of milk
60 g of eggs
40 g of butter
70 g of powdered sugar
75 g of frumina

For decoration

30 g of dark chocolate
1 tablespoon the drops of chocolate, pralines or pine nuts

For the filling

20 g of white chocolate
1 vanilla bean
15 g of sugar
20 g of rice flour
200 ml of milk

Materials Needed

Bowl
Chopping board
Round cookie cutter with a diameter of 5 cm
Rolling pin
Scale weighs food
Wooden spoon
Sieve
Baking paper
Baking tray
Casserole
Whip

Preparation

First, prepare the milk cream for the filling. In a saucepan, combine the milk and dissolve the corn starch. Flavor with a vanilla bean, previously cut to scrape the seeds, then add the sugar and the pieces of white chocolate. Bring gently to a boil maintaining a medium heat and continue stirring so that the cream takes on the consistency of a pudding.

The idea of Halloween
To prepare an orange cream (in full "Halloween" theme) it is advisable to add a few drops of orange coloring or to use colored sugar.

Cover the milk cream with a sheet of cling film and allow to cool completely.
Meanwhile, prepare the cocoa shortcrust pastry for the biscuits. In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients (white flour, wheat starch, salt, unsweetened cocoa, yeast and sugar). In the center, add the soft butter, egg and milk, then knead until the mixture is workable with your hands and not sticky. If necessary, add a little more milk.
Wrap the dough in a sheet of cling film and let it rest for half an hour.
In the meantime, devote yourself to the preparation of the chocolate legs. Chop the dark chocolate and melt it in the microwave or in a double boiler. Gather the chocolate in a croissant and, on a sheet of baking paper, draw a hundred long and narrow strands. Leave the chocolate paws to set in the fridge.
Take the dough and roll it out with a rolling pin to a thickness of a few millimeters. Using a round mold, obtain the biscuits and place them gradually on a plate lined with baking paper.
Bake the biscuits in a hot oven preheated to 160 ° C for about 15 minutes.
Remove the cookies from the oven and allow to cool.
Arrange half of the biscuits on a plate or on a cutting board and decorate with the remaining melted chocolate. With decorations of your choice (eg pine nuts, silver pralines or chocolate dragees), make the "eyes" of the spider.
At this point, assemble the cookies two by two making the shape of small spiders. Spread a teaspoon of cold milk cream on the base of a biscuit, then fit 8 strands of chocolate to mimic the spider's legs. Cover with a decorated biscuit, exerting slight pressure to make sure that the two parts adhere.
Continue in this way with all the other biscuits.
Leave to cool for at least an hour to allow the chocolate to solidify. Serve.

Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

Come on, in the end these spiders are not as scary as I thought they are so sweet, so good! Do you know what I tell you? If all spiders were like this, I really think I could become their faithful friend! And what are you afraid of?

Nutritional values and Health Comment on the recipe

Halloween Spiders are a product that falls into the dessert group.
They have a medium-high caloric intake, provided mainly by carbohydrates, followed by lipids and finally by proteins.
Carbohydrates are mainly complex (starch), peptides of medium-high biological value and saturated fatty acids.
Cholesterol is quite present and the fibers are abundant.
Halloween Spiders are a food not suitable for clinical nutritional regimes, especially against overweight, hyperglycemia and hypertriglyceridemia. They are not suitable for vegan, lactose and gluten intolerant diets.
The average serving of Halloween Spiders as a dessert is around 30-40g (75-100kcal).