Kids love cookies, and ours don’t disappoint – neither the kids nor the cookies. You can make delicious cookies with a bit less sugar than the normal truckful by replacing some of it with our sweet sapa. The adults will think you are terribly sophisticated and the kids won’t notice the difference. Perfect.
Ingredients
Butter – 200g/7oz
Sugar – 100g/½ a cup
Sapa – 2 tablespoons
Flour – 250g/2 cups
Orange – the grated zest of 1
Dark chocolate – 400g/14oz
Preheat your oven to 190oC/375oF/GM5.
In a bowl cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Pour in the sapa and mix it in. Gradually beat in the flour and then the orange zest.
Next roll out the dough on a floured surface, to about ½cm thickness. Cut out your biscuits with a cutter or the top of a glass. Carefully place the cookies onto a well greased baking try and bake for 9-11 mins. They’re usually done when you can smell them.
While they’re cooling, break the chocolate up in a small bowl and melt it using a bain-marie (a glass bowl on a saucepan of just boiling water). Dip one end of each cookie into the chocolate, then let them dry completely.
Does anyone know where I could buy some sapa in the UK ?
It’s also know as saba in some shops. You can buy it online from the Nudo website, and at the moment there is a 2 for 1 offer…
these look delicious. I will try them with my children, though i imagine my husband will get to them first…
These look fabulous, but I wouldn’t recommend cooking them at the suggested temperature of 3190 degrees C. Your oven might melt!
Thanks for pointing out the typo, Kevan! It’s now the correct 190ºC temperature.
I was previously scrabbling round to find a recipe for the Sapa I bought some months ago. Many thanks for this.
Hi Janet, glad to hear you’re going to use your Sapa for this recipe. Also have a look at the delicious Caramelised Onion and Sapa tart recipe: http://bit.ly/IdoK1n
I bought some sapa a little while ago…can you remind of what it is exactly? I am anxious to try these cookies!
Thanks!
Hello Maria – sapa is reduced grape ‘must’. So it is just the juice from our Italian grapes, cooked down for about 24 hours. It is sweet and has none of the acidity of a vinegar. It’s like pure balsamico. I hope that helps!
Jason
I loved your post! Yum!