For 300 g, you will need:
- 0
150 g icing sugar - 1
150 g ground almonds - 2
1 egg white - 3
7 drops food colouring (optional) - Total weight: 330 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 11 min. | 11 min. |
Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
Put 150 g ground almonds in a bowl, then sieve on top 150 g icing sugar. We use the sieve to remove any lumps.
Stage 2 - 1 min.
Mix the two thoroughly, this mix is call "tant-pour-tant" (like-for-like) by French pastrycooks.
Stage 3 - 1 min.
Put this mixture into the food processor.
Stage 4 - 1 min.
If you like it, add 7 drops food colouring (children love that).
Stage 5 - 1 min.
Beat 1 egg white lightly with a fork to make adding a little at a time easier.
Start the food processor, and after 10 seconds add a little egg white.
Start the food processor, and after 10 seconds add a little egg white.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Continue to add egg white until the mix starts to come together.
Stage 7
Don't mix too long, stop as soon as the mixture starts to gather into a ball.
Stage 8
Finish shaping into a ball with your hand. Wrap it in plastic film, and put in the fridge until use.
Remarks
It's delicious on its own, but can be used for modelling cake decorations, put in the bottom of a tart, or for making a delicious cake called "colombier de la pentecote" (used for preparing "baked Alaska" - recipe coming soon).
Keeping
Several days in the frifge, folded in a plastic film.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,568 Kcal or 6,565 Kj | 30 gr | 176 gr | 83 gr |
| 78 % | 12 % | 17 % | 13 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 475 Kcal or 1,989 Kj | 9 gr | 53 gr | 25 gr |
| 24 % | 3 % | 5 % | 4 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Macarons (the original French macaroons) , Mirlitons, Almond cream or frangipane, Paris-Brest, Little Christmas biscuits, ... All |
 | Ground almonds: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Moist chocolate cake, Almond macaroon cake, Apple Strudel, Croute à thé, Apricot blancmange, ... All |
 | Egg white: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Nougat, Meringues, Peach and verbena feuilleté, Italian Meringue, Pistachio "Financiers", ... All |
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2) usually no, because egg white powder is dry (so water should be added to)