What a bizarre title!… I heard that!
For those who are new to this blog, welcome! Also, I am a cat person. I am a cat lover. My husband and I are currently owned by three kitties.
(Like the name of this blog isn’t giving me away…)
Among those three is Texas. When I adopted him, he was so cute and small that I nicknamed him “my little shrimp.”
The little shrimp has grown up to be a beautiful kitty, and is now – today – 7.
Happy Birthday, Texas!
My dear Texas, you’ve been my most loyal, truthful and lovely friend ever. The most furry one too. My black pants know about that ;-) But who cares about black pants when one knows you! I don’t!
In honor of his birthday, I baked something related to kitties: cat’s tongue biscuits or “langues de chat.”
I tried cooking treats for our kitties before, but those were not always a success, so Texas will have his favorite food today and some new toys. You can never have enough nip toys, right? The humans are having cookies.
The “langues de chat” are very easy to bake and only require a little time if you want to put some chocolate on them like I did.
I used and adapted a recipe from the lovely book “La Cuisine des Fées” (“Faeries Cooking”).
For about 100 biscuits (I doubled the proportions from the original recipe, so you can divide in two), you will need:
–For the biscuits–
– 1 stick butter, softened
– 1 cup confectioner’s sugar
– 1 cup flour
– 2 egg whites
– some more butter
–For the chocolate–
– 3.5 oz good chocolate (57% cacao min.)
1. Pre-heat your oven to 400F.
2. Mix the sugar with the butter in a large bowl, until it looks creamy.
3. Add the egg whites. Beat. Sieve the flour and add it slowly to the mixture, while still beating. Mix until the batter is combined.
4. Put the additional butter (1 tbsp will do) in the microwave to melt it. On a cooking sheet, add some parchment paper. Using a brush, put a very thin layer of the melted butter on the parchment paper.
5. Using a pastry bag, create little sticks (about 1 inch long) of batter on your parchment paper.
6. Bake for 5-6 minutes. Let cool on the parchment paper.
Your cat’s tongues or langues de chat are ready to eat if you don’t want to add anything on them.
Now what if you want to add the chocolate? The recipe in the book says you should temper the chocolate. I was a little lazy on that one, I admit, and simply melted the chocolate, but if you want a better looking result, go for tempering!
So once you have either your tempered or melted chocolate, apply a thin layer on the bottom of each “tongue.”
Let the chocolate dry and solidify. Et voilà !
Cody-Cat Chat (@CatChatCaren) said:
those look simply DELICIOUS!! I am coming over now to have some! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO PRECIOUS TEXAS!! xoxoxo
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Carine said:
Thank you :-)
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Lynda said:
Happy Birthday, Texas!
Mmmm… don’t those cookies look delicious!
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Carine said:
Thank you :-)
Texas meows “thank you furry much!”
:-)
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Bernadette said:
So glad you posted the recipe–and the photo of your little shrimp!
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Carine said:
Eheh! Ma p’tite crevette :-)
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hungryandfit said:
Cuuuute! And yum!!
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Carine said:
Thank you!
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Herman said:
Oh no!! Can you mail me some langues de chat? I love those cookies. We call them ‘Kattentongen’ in Flemish/Dutch.
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Carine said:
I would have if some people – ahem – wouldn’t have eaten them all – cough cough…
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thecompletecookbook said:
Happy 7th Birthday Texas. You are so lucky to have such a wonderful human mommy. Liker her I am also a cat person – BIG TIME and have 3 fur babies of my own and they too make an appearance on my blog every now and again. If they and my hubby would allow it, I would have 3 more. You were just the cutest little kitten and have turned out to be a very handsome boy.
Love the cookies too!
:-) Mandy xo
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Carine said:
Texas meows “thank you furry much!” Says Hiya! to your fur babies.
:-)
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janinka1 said:
Yummy cat’s tongues !! Happy Birthday Texas :-)
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Carine said:
Thanks from both of us :-)
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home, garden, life said:
I would not bother with tempering the chocolate..merely make a ganache.
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Carine said:
:-)
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an uncommon girl said:
Happy Birthday Texas!!
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Carine said:
Texas meows “thank you furry much!”
:-)
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yummychunklet said:
Happy Birthday Texas!
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Carine said:
Texas meows “thank you furry much!”
:-)
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ChgoJohn said:
Happy birthday to the Little Guy!
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Carine said:
He meows “thank you furry much!”
:-)
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YellowCable said:
A little late but Happy Birthday to Texas. The cookies for human look very good!
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YellowCable said:
Opps, they are biscuits.
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Carine said:
Thank you from the both of us :-)
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carla @ eat sweet. by carla sue said:
Happy Birthday Texas! (by the way…I love that you said that you are your husband are owned by the kitties….so true!)
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Carine said:
Eheh!
Texas says “Thank you furry much!”
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carla @ eat sweet. by carla sue said:
Hehehe!
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Summer Solstice Girl said:
Heh! Two things:
1. I grew up eating “lengua de gato”. Very popular in Colombia
2. I always called Jay my little shrimp too!
:)
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Carine said:
And both Jay and Texas are ginger cats (although Texas insists is white/cream ;-)
That’s funny :-)
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Summer Solstice Girl said:
he he It is funny
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