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White chocolate ricotta-filled hazelnut-chocolate cookies

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Ingredients:
1 cupFinely chopped toasted
Hazelnuts
4 ozBittersweet chocolate
Finely grated (about 1 cup)
2 tbspButter, for greasing pans
40 Sue gow skins, see note, (40
-to 44)
15 ozRicotta cheese (about 2
Cups), room temp
1 1/3 cupFinely gratd white chocolate
1/4 cupPowdered sugar, sifted
2 tspFinely minced orange peel
(orange skin only, no white
Pith or membrane)
Procedures:
1Preheat oven to 350°F.
2In a medium bowl, combine the hazelnuts and chocolate; mix well.
3Generously grease 2 heavy-gauge baking sheets with the butter.
4Arrange 9 to 12 sue gow skins on each baking sheet, leaving approximately ?inch between each skin.
5Sprinkle about 2?ts of the hazelnut-chocolate mixture on each skin.
6Bake 9 or 10 minutes, rotating the pans from bottom to top and back to front, until the skins are light golden brown on the edges (the chocolate will not melt).
7Remove from the oven and cool skins on baking racks.
8Prepare the remaining skins the same way and bake until done.
9Cool to room temperature.
10In a medium bowl, combine the ricotta cheese, white chocolate, sugar and orange peel; mix well.
11Using approximately 1 tb per cookie, center the ricotta mixture on the nut-chocolate side of the skins.
12Top each with remaining skins, nut-chocolate side up.
13Serve on a large platter garnished with mint sprigs or curled orange zest.
14Note: sue gow skins are thin, round wrappers used to make asian dumplings, dim sum, wontons etc.
15If you cannot find sue gow skins, substitute square wonton wrappers, but avoid potsticker skins because they are too thick for this recipe.
16The san francisco examiner, february 9, 1994