Polos

Ingredients:

250 gm. Butter
150 gm. icing sugar
1 tsp. vanilla essence
pinch of salt
2 whole eggs
1 egg yolk
250 gm. Plain flour

For Filling:

100 gm. Cooking chocolate
6 Tbsp. evaporated milk or whipping cream
100 gm. soft nougat (optional)

Method:

(1) Cream butter and icing till creamy, add in vanilla essence, salt and mix till combined.
(2) Add in eggs one at a time till combined before the next addition.
(3) Fold in flour and mix into a soft dough.
(4) Put soft dough in a piping bag with a plain nozzle. Pipe into small rounds onto a baking tray.
(5) Bake at 160C till golden , about 12 mins. Allow to cool before sandwiching with fillings.
(6) Mix all the filling ingredients together and melt over a pot of simmering hot water or microwave it till melted. This can be made in advance to allow the fillings to set a while in the fridge.
(7) Sandwich cookies together with the fillings.
(8) Pipe lines on top of the cookies with melted chocolate.