Cornuelle

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

Cornuelle is a traditional cookie originating from Villebois-Lavalette in Charente. The cookies are usually made with a combination of flour, sugar, butter, salt, eggs, baking powder, and anise seeds. The dough is shaped into triangles with ribbed edges, and a hole is made in the center of the cookies before they're baked and nicely golden. The top is brushed with egg yolks and sprinkled with anise seeds. Nowadays, small pink and white aniseed sweets are often used instead of the anise seeds. The three angles of the cookies represent the Holy Trinity, and the hole in the center is made for inserting branches during the Blessing of the Palms. The cookies are traditionally made for Palm Sunday.