Crisp Dessert Recipes - Cigarettes Russes Recipe

Ingredients

• 100 g/4 oz/1/2 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 2 egg whites, lightly beaten

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup unsalted (sweet) butter, melted

• 50 g/2 oz/1/2 cup plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted

• 4 drops of vanilla essence (extract)

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Method:

1. Whisk the sugar into the egg whites until smooth. Stir in the butter and flour and add the vanilla essence.

2. Grease and flour a baking (cookie) sheet. Spread spoonfuls into small oblongs well apart on the sheet.

3. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C/400F/gas mark 6 for 5-6 minutes until lightly golden.

4. Remove from the oven, remove one at a time from the baking sheet and place upside-down on the work surface.

5. Quickly roll tightly round a wooden spoon handle, holding firmly with the hand until it sets. Cool on a wire rack.

6. Repeat with the remaining mixture. Store in an airtight container.