This is my take on the classic Iced VoVo, with a richer and more flavoursome cookie base, and a marshmallow-ey topping.
Prep Time30 minutesmins
Cook Time15 minutesmins
Resting Time1 hourhr
Total Time1 hourhr45 minutesmins
Course: Cookies
Cuisine: Australian, Irish
Keyword: Coconut, cookies, iced vovo, marshmallow
Servings: 50cookies
Ingredients
Cookie base
150gplain flour
20gcoconut flour
30gcorn flour
100gunsalted buttercold
100gcaster sugar
pinch of salt
4egg yolks
Topping
200gpink marshmallows
20mlwater
20gunsalted butter
50gicing sugar
1/2teaspoonvanilla essence
60graspberry jam
2tablespoonsdesiccated coconut
Instructions
Cookie base
Place the flours and the butter into a food processor and pulse until the mixture resembles coarse sand.
Add sugar, salt and egg yolk and pulse until just combined and a bit lumpy. Empty the contents onto your workbench and bring together into a ball of dough.
Wrap in plastic and chill in the refrigerator for one hour.
Preheat the oven to 180°C.
Remove the dough from the fridge and roll out to 2mm thickness. Using a flower-shaped (or really, whatever you got!) cookie cutter and cut out about 50 cookies.
Place onto lined baking trays and bake for 15-20 minutes. You want the middle to be cooked, but the cookies should not take on a lot of colour. When done, remove and cool on cooling racks.
Marshmallow fondant topping
Place the marshmallows, butter, vanilla and water into a ceramic or glass bowl and melt them in the microwave, 10 seconds at a time, stirring in between.
Once fully melted and smooth, sift in the icing sugar and mix thoroughly. The mixture will still be quite runny but it will thicken when it cools.
Once the fondant is thick enough to pipe, fill it into a piping bag with a 3mm nozzle and pipe a 2-3mm thin layer around the perimeter of each cookie, leaving a hole for the jam in the middle.
Dip each cookie, fondant side down, into desiccated coconut and shake off the excess.
Finally, pipe a drop of raspberry jam into the middle.
Notes
Best enjoyed when they are a day old, with a cup of hot milk or tea or coffee.