RED FIFE AND PUMPKIN SEED COOKIES

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Chef Grunert shares another inventive cookie recipe that utilizes interesting ingredients, such as red fife flour, a hard wheat grain that imparts a nutty flavor. Buttery, lemony, and sweet, these cookies are easy to prepare. Makes about 80 small cookies.

Provided by Alex Grunert

Yield 80 small cookies

Number Of Ingredients 12

1 cup all-purpose flour
2 cups Anson Mills red fife flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons salt
Grated zest of 1 lemon
8 ounces (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
2 cups granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup pumpkin seeds
Confectioners' sugar for sprinkling

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 325°F. Line four half-sheet pans with parchment paper.
  • Combine the all-purpose flour, red fife flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and lemon zest in a medium bowl, and set aside.
  • In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar. Combine the eggs with the vanilla and add slowly to the creamed batter. With a silicone spatula, fold in the flour mixture and mix just until combined.
  • Using a tablespoon-size ice-cream scoop, drop the batter onto the prepared pans, spacing the cookies 2 inches apart. (They are very buttery and will run if placed too closely together.) Press the pumpkin seeds onto the cookies. Bake for 5 minutes. Turn the pans in the oven and bake for 5 more minutes. Cool completely on wire racks. Sprinkle confectioners' sugar on top of the cooled cookies.

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