Orange Fingers

Ingredients:

Baking sheet 

Parchment paper 

For the batter:

300 g soft butter

150 powdered sugar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract or 1 package vanilla sugar 

1 pinch of salt 

1 teaspoon ground orange peel 

4 egg yolks 

300 g all-purpose flour 

3-4 tablespoons orange juice 

Filling:

100 g Nutella

and/or orange or apricot jam

100 g semisweet chocolate 

Preparation:

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius (350F). Line baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Using an electric hand mixer whisk butter until smooth. Add sugar, vanilla extract or vanilla sugar, salt, and orange peel. Whisk until batter is smooth.

3. Add egg yolks, one at a time. Whisk each egg yolk in for 30 seconds. Sift flour and add in two portions, alternating with the orange juice.

4. Add batter to a piping bag and squeeze fingers of 5 cm (2 inches) onto parchment paper. Bake cookies for about 8-10 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius (350F).

5. Remove cookies from oven, remove with parchment paper from hot baking sheet, and let cool down.

6. Spread Nutella or jam on the flat side on one cookie, then add a second cookie with the flat side on top.

7. Melt semisweet chocolate, and dip cookies with one end into chocolate. Let cookies dry on parchment paper.