Almond Tuiles
By: Anonymous
Published: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 - 3:51pm

Ingredients




375 grams softened butter
375 grams caster sugar
5 beaten eggs
25 grams plain flour
375 grams finely ground almonds
dusting of icing sugar

Preparation

1 Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl. 2 Slowly add the beaten eggs. 3 Sift the flour and the almonds together and add to the mixture. 4 Blend to a smooth paste. 5 Leave to set in the refrigerator. 6 Take the very cold baking tray. 7 Spread the paste evenly across the template and lift it up to leave a round of paste. 8 Continue until the tray is full. 9 Bake in the oven preheated to 140/C/285/F/gas mark 2 for about 12 minutes or until the colour is evenly golden. 10 Using a spatula remove the biscuits carefully off the tray and mould them quickly round a rolling pin or whatever utensil you want to use to shape them. 11 Leave to cool. 12 Before serving dust with icing sugar. 13 These can be made to any size. The easiest way to get an even thin round surface is to cut a template from a plastic container to whatever diameter you want. Ours are approxinately 75 to 100mm. You also get a better result if the paste is made a day in advance and if the baking tray has been placed in the freezer for a short time before baking. 14 Serves 4