Recipe Search: Beirgarten

[~Czarina~]

Okay, there is this "cookie" sort of thing for dessert at the Beirgarten. They called it a floritine cookie. (I am not sure how it is spelled!!) It has a thin almost shortbread cookie with a raspberry (maybe) jam with thin sliced nuts on the top. I am thinking almond. My friend and I could make a meal out of them and we have been looking for the recipe for years but oddly enough really stopped to look at what was in them. Can anybody offer us a leg up? Pretty please!

 

[Latte Lover]

Hi Czarina
I haven't eaten at the Biergarten myself, but it sounds like the cookie recipe you are looking for is for florentines. The base of the cookie is usually coated in chocolate and the 'shortbread' bit is usually more like a brandy snap. The top has mixed candied citrus peel, almonds, glace cherries and sometimes sultanas. And the whole thing is quite thin. Does this sound like your cookie? I have a couple of different recipes for florentines is you would like them, but of course they will be the english version so perhaps a bit different! I have tried a few 'disney recipe' sites for you, but no luck.

 

[jenny2]

I don't know about the recipe... but I LOVE those at Beirgarten!! I really like the desserts there.

 

[~Czarina~]

Latte Lover, those sound simular but not excatly it. The fruit was from a jam and sadly there was no chocolate anywhere on them. I do however have several weekly events I cook for and we are always willing to try a new recipe so please share.

 

[bavaria]

Okay, there is this "cookie" sort of thing for dessert at the Beirgarten. They called it a floritine cookie. (I am not sure how it is spelled!!) It has a thin almost shortbread cookie with a raspberry (maybe) jam with thin sliced nuts on the top. I am thinking almond. My friend and I could make a meal out of them and we have been looking for the recipe for years but oddly enough really stopped to look at what was in them. Can anybody offer us a leg up? Pretty please!

This sounds more like what is called a 'nut corner' in German. It is usually triangular and the corners are often dipped in chocolate. It has a shortbread type base, jam, and sliced almonds, just as you describe.

A florentine is as described as below.

Hope that helps!!

 

[bavaria]

Here's a recipe from a quick search of Nussecken

I can't vouch for it. My grandmother makes amazing ones thought!

Nussecken

 

[~Czarina~]

Oh, those nut triangles look awesome!!! I am going to have to try those but what I had before had thinly slices almonds on the top. It really wasn't very nutty at all. It is more like a bar then a cookie, if that helps. Jenny2, help me out here will ya!

 

[~Czarina~]

Okay, they look almost exactly like this . . .

Except the ones they had at Epcot had a darker "filling" or center . . .

Jenny, do you recall them being that thick?

 

[bavaria]

Well, both my mother and grandmother have the following baking schedule:

- Sundays: one cream filled torte, one fruit flan, and one nut based sheet

- Wednesdays: one 'dry' cake

I have broken the baking cycle in my generation. There are literally hundreds of versions of this type of bar in Germany. My grandmother makes ones with splintered almonds rather than slivered almonds.

Maybe I'll have to go to the Biergarten in the next few weeks to check it out!

 

[~Czarina~]

Well, yesterday mom and I made Linzer Bars, Scandinavian Almond Bars, Sour Cream Cookies, Caramel Apple Cookies, French Lemon Bars and Cherry Coconut Bars. Saturday's are our really big baking day because every Sunday after church we have a "big" get together with everybody that was at church. Basically we all move into the church kitchen and have lunch and snacks and play games, etc. Picture a really big Italian family . . . except without the Italians. And since my mom is mom/grandma to the entire church since everybody, besides my dad, is younger she always has to bring a couple extra sweet things. I think it is because she can sugar all the kids up and then send them home with their mothers. Anyway, if you manage to get to the Beirgarten soon, will you eat an extra cookie for Chuck and I?

 

[bavaria]

Anyway, if you manage to get to the Beirgarten soon, will you eat an extra cookie for Chuck and I?

Sure, that's a challenge I can definitely meet!!!

 

[~Czarina~]

Somebody gave me an e-mail address where I could get the recipe but no dice so far. I will keep ya'll posted.

 

[nickso]

Latte Lover, those sound simular but not excatly it. The fruit was from a jam and sadly there was no chocolate anywhere on them. I do however have several weekly events I cook for and we are always willing to try a new recipe so please share.

sounds like a quick non-rise kolache i tryed a year ago for a school project (im only 13... i love to cook!) anyways i cant find the recipe again but look on cooks.com

 

[bavaria]

DARN!!! sorry guys, I totally failed on this. Who was at Epcot all weekend and just left the park???? I can't believe that I forgot this!!!

and am heading off tomorrow so can't get to Biergarten.

My very humble apologies,
bavaria

 

[~Czarina~]

No problem bavaria. I will be there in January and hopefully I will have the nerve to ask.

 

[~Czarina~]

sounds like a quick non-rise kolache i tryed a year ago for a school project (im only 13... i love to cook!) anyways i cant find the recipe again but look on cooks.com

Oh, kolaches are awesome! I have had those before and this tastes very different. But I will make good use the recipes they have on cooks.com for kolaches.

I wish I could remember something more about them. I would think they are a figment of my imagination but Chuck remembers them too.