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Viennese Whirl Cookies Dipped in Chocolate with pistachios

Chocolate Dipped Viennese Whirls

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Melt in your mouth Viennese whirls butter cookies dipped in white and dark chocolate and topped with nuts. Perfect for your holiday cookie exchange.

  • Total Time: 0 hours
  • Yield: 24 cookies 1x

Ingredients

Scale

For Cookies:

200 grams(11/2 cups), all purpose flour

50 grams (1/2 cup) cornstarch

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

200 grams (3/4 cup, plus 2 Tablespoons) unsalted butter, at room temperature, cut into cubes

80 grams(1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon confectioners sugar)

Pinch of fine sea salt

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

White Chocolate or White Chocolate Melting Wafers

Dark Chocolate or Dark Chocolate Melting Wafers

2 tablespoons chopped pistachios

2 teaspoons chopped dried cranberries

Instructions

Preheat the over to 350. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper, set aside.

Put all of the ingredients into the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Beat the dough on low speed for a couple of minutes until the dough is mixed, and pliable. Make sure to scrape the bowl after a minute to be sure to get all of the flour off the bottom of the bowl.

Put a 3/8 star tip into a pastry bag and snip off the bottom. Place the bag into a tall glass and add half of the dough. Squeeze the dough down towards the tip and then twist the top of the pastry bag twice.

Make swirls of dough on the prepared parchment pans. The cookies spread a little bit so leave room on each side. Bake 10-12 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown on the edges.

Leave the cookies to cool on the pan for a minute, then remove from the pan and place on a wire rack to cool.

Once the cookies are completely cooled prepare your chocolate according to the direction on the bag. I used the Ghirardelli melting wafers for ease but you can temper chocolate and dip the cookies.

Melt the white chocolate and dip one 1/2 of the cookie in the chocolate. Place on a Silphat baking liner and sprinkle with the chopped nuts and cranberries. Do the same with the dark chocolate until all of the cookies are dipped and decorated.

Notes

You do not have to dip the cookies in chocolate, you can sprinkle them with sugar before you bake them or bake them plain.

Sandwich two cookies together with homemade jam or jelly.

To make a sandwich cookie place a dollop of apricot jam on one cookie and top with with another.

This recipe is from the Anja Dunk and her cookbook Advent: Festive German Bakes to Celebrate the Coming of Christmas 

  • Author: Elizabeth
  • Prep Time: 10 minutes
  • Cook Time: 12-14 minutes
  • Category: Dessert
  • Cuisine: British