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Almond dacquoise

A dacquoise is a sort of almond meringue that can be eaten like a biscuit or can be used as the base of more sophisticated desserts.

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Last modified on: June 28^th 2011

For 500 g, you will need:

1 5 egg whites
2 2 tablespoons caster sugar
3 150 g icing sugar
4 150 g ground almonds
Total weight: 480 grams

Change those ingredients for: 250 g 500 g 1 kg 1 kg 500 g

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How long does it take?

Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
19 min.	25 min.	44 min.

Keeping: 1 or 2 days in an airtight tin.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Beat 5 egg whites, incorporating 2 tablespoons caster sugar halfway through, then 150 g icing sugar when they are stiff.

Stage 2 - 2 min.

Tip 150 g ground almonds into the meringue.

Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F).

Stage 3 - 7 min.

Fold in the ground almonds gently.

Stage 4

Your dacquoise dough is ready.

Stage 5

You can pipe biscuits with a forcing bag like finger biscuits.

Stage 6

Or spread the mixture into one big flat biscuit with a metal spatula.

Stage 7

You can also make pistachio dacquoise by replacing the ground almonds with ground pistachios.

Stage 8 - 25 min.

Cook for around 25 minutes without opening the oven door, otherwise the dacquoise is very likely to fall completely flat.

Remarks

Another possible flavour: the almonds can be replaced with hazelnuts.

Important: the dacquoise dough is very sticky, so must be cooked on a non-stick baking sheet or a sheet of cooking parchment.

If you lose track of how many egg whites you have in your bowl, remember 1 egg white = 30 g approximately.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,712 Kcal or 7,168 Kj	36 gr	206 gr	83 gr
86 %	14 %	19 %	13 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
357 Kcal or 1,495 Kj	8 gr	43 gr	17 gr
18 %	3 %	4 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 500 g : 3.95 €

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Source

After Pierre Hermé (simplified).

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate almond cookies, Armagnac marzipan, Chestnut moelleux, Crust for tea, Blackcurrant-almond muffins, ... All
	Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Financiers, Tarte Normande, Sweet pastry, Sicilian Epiphany Pie, Santiago Cake, ... All
	Egg white: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Peach and verbena feuilleté, Italian Meringue, Chocolate madeleines, Almond tuiles, Amiens macaroons, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Blackcurrant, vanilla and lime verrine , Santiago Cake, Almond macaroon cake, Praline, Pets de nonne, ... All

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