Recipe Search: Beirgarten

[~Czarina~]

Okay, there is this "cookie" sort of thing for dessert at the Beirgarten. They called it a florentine cookie. 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 never really stopped to look at what was in them. Can anybody offer us a leg up? Pretty please!

 

[mmcguire]

The cookies are commonly called linzer tortes. I couldn't find a recipe specifically for the ones at Epcot, but if you do a Google search for linzer torte, you'll probably find a recipe similar to those.

For Christmas, I often make "quickie" linzer torte cookies by using refrigerated Pillsbury sugar cookie dough. I cut 1/2 the dough into solid stars, and the other 1/2 of the cookies are the same size star with a smaller star cut out of the center. Once you bake the cookies, spread a very light coating of a thin glaze made from milk, powdered sugar and a drop or two of almond extract (to taste) on the "cutout" cookies, then sprinkle with sliced almonds while the glaze is still wet. If you prefer powdered sugar to glaze & almonds, dust the cutout cookie with powdered sugar BEFORE placing on top of the other cookie. I then boil raspberry jam in the microwave, stick the top & bottom cookies together with some of the slightly cooled jam, and then fill the cutout to the top with jam. If you want the jam really red, stir in a couple drops of food coloring after melting.

I hope this is helpful!

 

[bavaria]

We were trying to figure this out on the recipe board, and having eaten thousands of slices of Linzer in my life, I didn't think that this was what Czarina is looking for. (The jam matches, but not the nuts on top) We also tried Nut Corners but that wasn't it.

HOWEVER once again I will try and make a big sacrifice for my DIS friends . I just booked a last minute trip leaving in about 12 days. SO this time if someone reminds me I will check it out.

Taste testing the german cookies - hmmm, that's a daily thing for me!

 

[TwingleMum]

I'm eating there Fri I'll ask for recipe.

 

[~Czarina~]

bavaria!!!

mmcguire, I tried linzers about month ago and it was rather different. The sugar cookie dough is a little to thick from my remembrance and a little to sweet. These are very hard to describe indeed.

If either one of you gets the recipe I would be almost eternally grateful. What would be better then snacking on them on the trip to Disney?

 

[bavaria]

I'm eating there Fri I'll ask for recipe.

If for whatever reason TwingleMum you can't get the recipe, could you at least get the name of the bar? Then I can get recipes for Czarina. (My mother and grandmother have well over 500 german cookbooks between them...)

I feel that I need to make up for my recent failure in October when I totally forgot to sample the bars!

 

[edith76]

recipezaar has a cookie recipe that sounds like what you were looking for. Nuss Dreiecken #52018 or nut triangles. I haven't tried this recipe but it sounds good.

My Aunt used to make these (but with sliced almonds) and they were so good it was hard to stop eating them. Unfortunately, I never got her recipe.

 

[bavaria]

Here is the original thread if it helps to jog any memories!

Czarina's quest for a recipe

 

[~Czarina~]

bavaria, when I am at the world I am lucky if I remember my name or much else for the matter so forgetting to taste or ask is totally cool with me. I wouldn't have remembered either.

According to the Biergarten menu I found here there is Apple Strudel, Bavarian Cheesecake, Black Forest Cake and Florentine Cookie. It can't be a Florentine Cookie can it? All the recipes I have found has had chocolate in it. I don't remember tasting any chocolate. This is scary - I am addicted to finding a recipe. Of all the Disney things I could become crazed over.

 

[bavaria]

Yes, but my forgetting to taste a good cookie rarely happens!

I don't recall Florentines not having a chocolate base, and I've had them in Germany, Austria, France, Switzerland...

Sadly once again it becomes a travel/chocolate/food thing with me!

 

[~Czarina~]

There is a reason to go to Disney besides travel/food/chocolate? How come nobody ever tells me these things? The same website had a raspberry cookie on their menu for supper but I have never been there for supper so . . . ? I live in a highly German and Polish area and I am getting nowhere here either.

 

[~Czarina~]

Any news TwingleMum?

 

[maggs]

I dont know if I am thinking of the same thing as you but here in the UK we have florentines, the base is as you say a thin crisp sugary cookie, On top of that there are sliced almonds and sometimes cherries and hazelnuts - never jam. They are very much a Christmas treat but we have them in the stores all year round. Are these what you mean?

I do have a recipe for them if you want it. They are always covered in chocolate in Europe.

Maggs

 

[~Czarina~]

I would love the recipe as they look 100% wonderful! (I am a baked good addict.) Sadly, they aren't what I am looking for. The ones around the chocolate cookie looks remotely close.

I think I am going to start taking pictures of everything I eat at Disney. . . It would make like so much easier and I could add at least 2 pages to the food porn post.