"Peaches" with "Alkermes"

Description

In addition to confiture and chocolate, it is good to glue peaches from dough with warm cream, which is usually used for filling cakes. In any case, you need to remember that the taste of cookies depends on how soft they are.

Cooking

Step 1

Sift the flour, pour it onto the work table in a slide with a recess in the middle. Add softened butter, sugar, eggs and yeast. On a floured surface, knead the dough until it is soft and smooth. Roll out the dough into an oblong sausage, cut into pieces and roll them into small balls. Put the balls on a greased baking sheet and bake in the oven for 15-20 minutes. at 170ºС, constantly monitoring the color of the balls. The baking time depends on the size of the balls. Once the balls are golden brown, remove the baking sheet from the oven. While still warm, dip the balls into the alkermes using a strainer or colander and roll them alternately in sugar. Connect the resulting "peaches" in pairs, smearing the sides with which they are connected with jam and chocolate melted in a water bath. Garnish with melissa leaves. Vocabulary Alkermes is a very sweet, pink liqueur from Italy. It has ancient origins and traditions. History attributes its invention to the Florentine monks from the church of Santa Maria Novella. For the first time, they mixed wine alcohol with sugar, adding cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, vanilla and other spices to it, and spicy herbs, jasmine and rose oil for aroma. The pink color characteristic of this liquor is due to the use of natural cochineal dye. Tip In addition to confiture and chocolate, you can use warm cream for filling cakes to “glue” peaches. In any case, you need to remember that the taste of "peaches" depends on their softness. Therefore, they can only be stored for a short time, wrapped in foil. Thanks to it, the softness of the peaches from the dough is preserved, as well as the intense aroma of Alquermes, which does not transfer to other products.