Favourite Family Recipe contest finalist Sara Milosavic shows chef Wayne Sych of Joe Fortes how to make breskvice cookies, also known as “little peaches.”
Breskvice (“Little Peaches”)
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ¾-1 cup sugar
- 225 ml (vegetable) oil
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp flour
- 3 cups flour
- water
- food colouring
- granulated sugar
- flavoured extract
- 350g jam (peach or apricot suggested)
- 150 ml rum (optional)
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Directions
- Whisk together eggs and sugar until just combined. Then mix in oil.
- Add milk and vanilla sugar and whisk until combined.
- Mix in baking powder and 3 tbsp of flour.
- Refrigerate for at least 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 350 F.
- Remove the batter from the refrigerator and add the rest of the flour, a little bit at a time (you may not need exactly 3 cups, it will depend on the consistency of the dough). Knead the dough on a floured surface until combined and it no longer sticks to your fingers.
- Roll into smooth/shiny balls and place on a baking sheet. Make sure there is a little bit of space between them, as they will expand slightly in the oven. Save extra dough.
- Bake for 18 minutes.
- Once slightly cooled, take the balls out of the oven and set aside the extra dough.
- Mix extra dough with jam and rum.
- Fill the cookies with the filling and stick them together.
- Mix water and food colouring (red and yellow) into separate bowls. Add flavoured extract if you like.
- Soak the balls in the water, half in red, half in yellow, and then dip them in sugar.
- Refrigerate before serving to allow cookies to set and soften.