Category: Dessert
Bouchon Bakery TKO (Thomas Keller Oreo) Cookies - TastyPlanner.com
Chef: Kevin Burg
This is the recipe for the famous TKO Cookies found at Bouchon Bakery ( http://www.bouchonbakery.com/ ) Now you get get your fix or these rich cookies without traveling to New York or one of their few other locations. Photo cred: http://flickr.com/photos/minliu/363228028/
Recipe Source: http://rubyurl.com/r0YG
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups plus 3 Tbsp all purpose flour
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/2 tsp salt
15 Tbsp unsalted butter, cut into 3/4" cubes, at room temperature
1/2 cup heavy cream
8 oz. white chocolate, chopped
Instructions
1. For the Filling: In a small pan, bring the cream to a boil. Remove from heat and add the chocolate. Let stand for 1 minute, then whisk to melt the chocolate until smooth. Transfer to a small bowl, and let stand for 6 hours to thicken up.
2. For the Cookies: In a large mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt, and mix on low speed. With the mixer running, add the butter, a piece at a time. The mixture will be dry and sandy at first, but over 2 minutes, will form pebble-sie pieces that start to cling together. Stop the mixer and transfer the dough to your board.
3. Preheat oven to 350F. Seperate dough into 2 pieces. Roll each piece of dough between 2 pieces of plastic wrap or parchment paper to 1/8" inch thick. Using a fluted cutter, cut into rounds. Scraps can be pieced together and rolled out again. Place 1/2" apart on baking sheets lined with Silpat liners or parchment paper.
4. Bake for 12-15 minutes, rotating halfway through baking. Remove and cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then transfer cookies to a cooling rack. Cool completely.
5. To Assemble: Lightly whip the white chocolate cream to aerate and fluff up. Transfer filling to a pastry bag fitted with a 1/4" plain tip. Pipe about 1 1/2 tsp in the center of half the cookies. Top with another cookie to sandwich. Gently press down until the cream comes to the edges.
6. Cookies can be stored in a container for up to 3 days. Loosely cover.
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Recipe Comments
This recipe needs a lot of work. The cookie dough is far too crumbly. To make this work, you need to add about 2 tablespoons of water to the dough. The filling is VERY runny. It turns out to be the consistency of pudding. You would have to probably cut the amount of cream in the filling at least in half to make it the correct consistency. Decent taste, but overall, this recipe does not succeed.
I ate these cookies at Bouchon bakery in Beverly Hills.
Easy to make. Great flavor!
TKO cookies came out perfect check my cookie photos on http://sugarbaking.blogspot.com/
Thanks for the recipe. I will make these cookies again for gifts. 10 stars
