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125g butter
125g icing sugar
125g plain flour
3 free-range egg whites
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
a pinch of salt
50g chocolate (72% cocoa)

makes +/- 32 delicious cookies

It is July 14th, so today we are baking French cookies in honor of *Quatorze Juillet* (Bastille Day). Outside the rain is still pouring on and off, so we can only hope it is a beautiful, sunny day in France.

We're having fun baking delicious *Langues de Chat* (cat's tongues) cookies to go with our tea. Made according to the French recipe, these cookies are more elegant and refined in flavour than our Dutch *kattentongen*. The Dutch version is tasty too, but tastes a bit more like shortbread. So give these French a try!

How to make Langues de Chat

Weigh the butter and icing sugar.

Mix them creamy together.

Sift the right amount of flour into the cream.

Mix it together.

Add the vanilla essence.

And the separated egg whites.

Mix it together into a fluffy batter.

By now it should look like this.

Fold a piping bag over a high glass.

Fill it with the batter and unfold it.

Pipe stripes on the waxed paper.

Preheat the oven to 180°C already. Place a pan with a thin layer of water on low heat. Put a heat proof bowl on the pan to melt the chocolate. This is called 'au bain marie'.