Almond Tuiles
French-style thin, crispy almond tuiles, shaped into curls while still warm.
Ingredients
egg whites
2
icing sugar
50 g
melted salted butter
30 g
flour
30 g
chopped or slivered almonds
60 g
butter (for greasing the pan)
20 g
Instructions
1
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 210°C (gas mark 7). Whisk the egg whites and icing sugar until slightly frothy. Add the flour, then the melted butter, and mix with a spatula.
2
Shaping
Butter the baking sheet and lightly dust it with flour. Place small mounds of batter on the sheet, spacing them about 3 cm apart. Flatten the surface with the back of a knife, then sprinkle with almonds.
3
Baking
Bake in the oven for about 8 minutes.
4
Shaping the tuiles
As soon as they come out of the oven, while still hot, shape the tuiles by rolling them around a rolling pin or a tuile mold.
