精致而优雅的花边饼干看起来很具有挑战性。这些黄油饼干以蕾丝状的孔形成蕾丝状的孔，这些黄油饼干轻巧酥脆，但充满了很多风味。然后，您可能会让您感到惊讶的是，得知面糊仅用勺子将其混合在一个锅中，而这些实际上是简单的滴饼干。唯一的收获是，您必须将烤盘与不粘衬里衬上，这实际上使清理变得轻而易举。

For a smooth batter, boil the ingredients

One of the things I love about lace cookies is that you can endlessly vary the flavor of the batter. The primary ingredients, however, are quite basic. Butter gives the cookies their buttery flavor, obviously, and a good amount of it is what helps them spread so thinly. Sugar or brown sugar and often corn syrup sweeten the cookies and give them their crisp texture. A bit of flour as well as some ground nuts or oatmeal thicken the batter and give it substance. Vanilla or other extracts, liqueurs, citrus zest, and spices will vary the flavor, as will using different nuts and adding chopped dried fruits, ginger, or coffee.

No mixer or thermometer needed.All you need for combining the ingredients is a spoon and a saucepan. The butter gets melted and boiled with the sugar and the corn syrup. This boiling reduces the traces of water found in the butter and corn syrup. Without the boiling, the excess water would cause the cookies to run all over the place. The ingredients only need to boil briefly; you don’t need to cook them to any particular temperature. The rest of the ingredients are then stirred in off the heat.

For perfect rounds, use a nonstick liner

在烤盘上衬里（我更喜欢铝制的铝板），不粘衬里是至关重要的一步。市场上有各种各样的可重复使用的衬里，从5美元到20美元不等。在这些衬里上，饼干稀薄，均匀烘烤，轻松升起。农作物的奶油是进口的Silpat/exopat衬里；如果您经常烘烤，这是一项不错的投资，但是便宜的版本也很好。厨房羊皮纸（其中大部分都用硅胶处理）会捏住，但是饼干散布不多，看起来不会像蕾丝那样美味，尽管它们仍然很美味。只需在底盘上润滑锅中的碎屑，而饼干不会在铝箔上均匀散布。

Let the cookies firm up a bit before removing them.用细铲将其移到架子上以进一步冷却。但是，如果您打算按照下面讨论的方式塑造饼干，则需要将它们从锅中取出，同时仍然非常温暖且可延展。

塑造温暖的花边饼干成异想天开的形状

Because they’re so thin and—initially—so pliable, still-warm lace cookies can be shaped all kinds of ways. Little tubes, made from rolling the cookie around a dowel or wooden spoon handle, are great for dipping into tea and coffee.

我还喜欢将饼干变成碗中，以拿着奶油或水果填充物。为此，请小心地从烤盘上取出饼干，同时仍然温暖而柔软，然后将它们悬挂在一个小覆盖的玻璃上。对于tuile，将饼干放在滚动销上。一旦饼干冷却到足够刚性，就将其从模具中取出，它们将保持形状。

如果烤盘上的饼干在整形完成之前变得太牢固，请将它们放回热烤箱中一分钟。如果您想要大杯子，请为每个饼干使用两到三茶匙面糊，然后在烤盘上至少留四英寸。这Classic Lace Cookiesand牛奶巧克力山核桃花边饼干两者都可以很好地塑造；英国Cinnamon Currant Oatmeal Lace Cookies形状时倾向于突破饼干。

服务和存储蕾丝饼干

这些饼干的另一个很棒的事情是它们的多功能性。我喜欢将平坦的圆形变成三明治。果冻和果酱也制作出很好的填充物。在用巧克力填充三明治时，让融化的巧克力结合稍微稍微升起，这样它不会在微小的孔中渗出太多。

你可以填满碗状饼干冰淇淋,whipped cream, lemon curd, or any other soft filling. They can also hold slices of slightly sweetened fruit. If I’m planning to fill the cookies, I wait to do it until just before serving so the cookies stay crisp. I also have a few extra shells on hand in case one breaks. Even though they’re bowl shaped, they should be served in a bowl or plate or things might get messy.

饼干将在室温下用蜡纸或保鲜膜包裹几天，以保持酥脆和美味。它们也很好地冷冻，但是您需要将它们存放在锡或坚固的塑料容器中，以保护它们免受摇摆和崩溃的影响。