Cigar Cookies Recipes

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, combine sugar, flour, and salt; make a well in the center. Add melted butter, egg whites, cream, and vanilla. Mix until well combined. Refrigerate, covered, for at least 2 hours or overnight.
• Heat oven to 425 degrees. Place rack in center. Spray 2 baking sheets (do not use air-cushioned sheets or line with parchment) with vegetable-oil spray. Spoon a heaping tablespoon of batter onto baking sheet. Using the back of a spoon, spread batter into a very thin 6-by-3 1/2-inch oval. Repeat, making 3 more ovals of batter on the sheet.
• Bake just until brown around edges, about 6 minutes. Meanwhile, prepare second baking sheet. Working quickly, use a knife or long metal spatula to transfer a cookie to a work surface; roll around a chopstick or thin wooden dowel, forming a cigarette shape; place on wire rack to cool. Repeat with remaining 3 cookies. If they get too stiff, return baking sheet to oven for 30 seconds. Continue baking and shaping cookies until batter is used up.
• Combine chocolate, corn syrup, and remaining 4 tablespoons butter in a double boiler over simmering water; stir occasionally with a rubber spatula until smooth. Let cool slightly. Dip about 1 inch of each cooled cookie into chocolate. Place on a wire rack, with dipped section off the edge, to dry.

Steps:

• Beat margarine and sugar until light.
• Beat in eggs. Add rest of ingredients and mix well.
• Place batter by small teaspoonfuls far apart on well greased cookie sheet(s). Probably have to do this in 4 batches.
• Bake at 350 degrees F. for 10 minutes until edges and undersides are well browned. If not adequately browned, it won't roll. Loosen each cookie immediately and roll up while hot.
• Place rolled up cookies on a napkin lined plate and sprinkle with confectioners sugar when cooled. Do this until process until you use up all the batter.

Steps:

• For the cookies: Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
• Whisk the egg whites in a bowl just until mixed. Sift in the flour and the confectioners' sugar and whisk until combined. Slowly incorporate the milk, melted butter, and the vanilla extract. On a well-greased sheet pan or silpat, add tablespoons of batter equally spaced apart from one another. Spread each thin and in a rectangular shape, using the back of a spoon. Bake the wafers just until brown around the edges, about 4 to 8 minutes. With a flexible knife or metal spatula, lift the wafers off the baking sheet while they are still hot. If they cool down, warm them briefly in the oven. Working quickly, curl the hot wafers at once around a pencil. If they harden while shaping, return them to the oven briefly until they soften.
• For the chocolate: On a low simmer in a double boiler, melt the chocolate chips. Dip the end of each cigar cookie into the chocolate and place on a well-greased cookie sheet to cool. Tuck a fortune message into the inside of each of the cookies.

Steps:

• Cut a stencil out of a plastic coffee can lid in the shape of a 3-inch disk. Whip the egg whites until stiff and chill. In a mixer, cream the butter, then add the sugar and continue mixing. Add the flour and blend in, then add the vanilla and blend again. Add the chilled egg whites and mix on low until well incorporated and the batter is smooth. With a small offset spatula, spread batter through the stencil so it is a circle onto a silpat or parchment paper, about 6 per cookie sheet. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven until light golden brown, 7 to 8 minutes. Quickly remove the pan from the oven and one at time place a fortune across the center with a bit hanging out. Fold cookie circle in thirds over fortune with flaps only slightly overlapping each other. Turn over and bring opposing sides together and pinch. Let cool.