Rose Water Cream Sandwich Cookies Recipes

OLD GERMAN ROSE WATER SUGAR COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
• Cream sugar and butter until smooth.
• Beat in yolks and flavorings.
• Combine baking soda and sour cream and stir into sugar mixture.
• Add rose water.
• Sift flour and salt and mix with batter.
• Roll out on floured surface and cut with cookie cutter.
• Bake on greased sheets for 15 to 20 minutes.

ROSE WATER CREAM SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• Filling:Stir together cream cheese and sugar with a wooden spoon until smooth. Add rose water and milk, and stir until smooth. Filling can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 3 days; bring to room temperature and stir until smooth before using.
• Cookies:Whisk to combine flour, cornstarch, and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat butter and confectioners' sugar with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes. Add rose water, and mix until combined, scraping down side of bowl. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture; mix until just combined. Divide dough in half, and shape into disks. Wrap each in plastic, and chill 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On parchment, roll 1 disk of dough to 1/8-inch thickness; chill 15 minutes. Cut 1 1/2-inch rounds from dough, and place 1 inch apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Repeat with remaining disk. Using the wide end of a pastry tip, cut a 1/2-inch hole off-center in half the rounds. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until barely golden, about 14 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely. (Unfilled cookies can be storedin an airtight container up to 3 days.)
• Dust cut-out cookies lightly with confectioners' sugar. Spread a heaping 1/2 teaspoon filling on whole cookies and top with cut-out cookies. Place a candied rose petal or violet in each hole. Once sandwiched, cookies can be stored in a single layer in an airtight container at room temperature up to 1 day.

ROSE WATER CREAM MELT AWAY SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Cookies: 1. Whisk to combine flour, cornstarch and salt in a bowl. In a separate bowl, beat butter and confectioners' sugar with an electric mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, 5 minutes. Add rose water, and mix until combined. Switch to whisk, add flour mixture; mix until just combined. Divide dough in half, shape into disks. Wrap each in plastic, and chill 1 hour. 2. Preheat oven to 305 degrees. On parchment, roll 1 disk of dough to 1/8 thickness, chill 15 minutes. Cut 1 1/2 inch rounds from dough, and place 1 inch apart on parchment lined baking sheets. Repeat with remaining disk. Using the wide end of a pastry tip, cut a 1/2 inch hole off center in half of rounds. Bake, rotating sheets halfway through, until barely golden, about 14 minutes. Transfer cookies to wire racks to cool completely. (unfilled cookies can be stored in an air tight container up to 3 days) 3. Dust cut out cookies lightly with confectioners' sugar. Spread a heaping 1/2 teaspoon filling on whole cookies and top with cot out cookies. Filling: Stir together cream cheese and sugar with a wooden spoon until smooth. Add rose water and milk, stir until smooth.

BASTANI (PERSIAN ROSE WATER, SAFFRON AND PISTACHIO ICE CREAM)

Steps:

• In a medium thick-bottomed bot, slowly heat the milk to boiling while stirring. Add the vanilla extract and saffron. Continue to cook on low heat, stirring occasionally while doing the next step.
• Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until smooth and foamy. Very carefully and slowly, pour the egg/sugar mixture into the milk. Make sure to stir it rapidly with a fork or use a whisk while pouring (or you will end up with scrambled eggs in the ice cream!).
• Continue heating the mixture on low heat while stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until thickened (it should be foamy and coat the spoon).
• Pour the custard mixture into a bowl, and refrigerate until well chilled.
• Once cold, stir in the cream, rose water or extract, and chopped pistachios.
• Churn in an ice cream maker until finished (or, stick in the freezer and vigorously stir every 30 minutes or so to break up the ice crystals, until it is homogenous and frozen).