Langue de Chat (Cat Tongue Cookies)

If you like light and thin cookies, this cookie is for you. It is crunchy, light, and easily crumble away in your mouth. This is the perfect cookie to go with your coffee or tea for a lazy afternoon tea. Langue de Chat is actually a French cookie, which is originally made into long curve shape (like a tongue) and baked to crisp at the edge but remain soft in the middle. However, I prefer a crispy throughout version, hence I spent some time and found this recipe. The recipe is written in Japanese, found here.

Ingredients

50g cake flour
10g almond powder
1 egg white
50g powdered sugar
50g butter

Cooking Directions

Cream the butter with powdered sugar together
Divide egg white into 3 portion, add in 1/3 at a time. Whisk until pale yellow in color.
Add in flour and almond powder, mix until well combined.
Preheat the oven to 180 degree Celsius
Line the baking sheet with baking paper.
Transfer the batter into a piping bag, snip off the end.
Pipe the batter to your desire shape, leaving at least 1/2 inch in between as the batter will spread during baking.
Bake the cookie for 8 minutes.
Remove the cookies from baking paper, air the cookies on a wire rack.

Note: The cookie will be soft when fresh out of the oven, it will harden in a while. Keep the cookies into a airtight container once it harden.