Pink Pitaya Vanilla Cream Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Cookies
Chocolate on the outside, pink on the inside, but yummy inside out. These Pink Pitaya Vanilla Cream Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Cookies are the perfect, bite-sized sweet treats that you've been needing all week! Made with Suncore Foods® Pink Pitaya Powder to create these delights. Take one bite and you will fall in love!
Ingredients
Espresso Shortbread Cookies:
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup powdered sugar
2 tsp instant espresso powder
1/4 salt
80g dairy free butter
1 teaspoon vanilla bean extract
Pink Pitaya Cream Filling:
75g dairy free butter
1/2 cup powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla bean extract
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp Suncore Foods® Pink Pitaya Powder dissolved in 1 tsp water
1-2 tbsp coconut milk
Directions
1. Preheat your oven to 175c, In a food processor combine the cookie ingredients and pulse to combined.
2. Roll out the dough. Use a circle cookie cutter, cut out the cookies until you’ve used all the dough. Lay cookies on prepared baking sheets and bake for approximately 15 minutes. Let cool completely before assembling.
3. To make the filling – Place butter in the stand mixer bowl with the paddle attachment. Whip on medium to high speed for about 2 mins.
4. Stop mixer and add the sifted powdered sugar, salt, vanilla bean extract and Suncore Foods® Pink Pitaya Powder. Mix on low speed until incorporated, scrape the bottom and sides of the bowl and then mix on high speed until smooth. (Add more powdered sugar if the cream is too thin or another tablespoon of coconut milk if frosting is too thick).
5. Pipe the cream filling on the bottoms of half of the cookies; top with remaining cookies. Enjoy!