Cigarettes Russes (Piroulines)
The French name for these tubular biscuits means "Russian cigarettes". Cigarettes Russes are perfect for serving with ice cream or other desserts.
The basic biscuit is fairly easy to make; the tricky bit is rolling the tube once cooked.
The basic biscuit is fairly easy to make; the tricky bit is rolling the tube once cooked.
Last modified on: May 25th 2014
Keywords for this recipe:TubularBiscuitsCrunchyRussianCigarettesFor 24 pieces, you will need:
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100 g flour - 1
150 g icing sugar - 2
100 g egg white - 3
100 g butter - Total weight: 450 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 31 min. | 15 min. | 46 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 2 min.
Stage 2 - 2 min.
Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).
Heat 100 g butter over low heat until just melted.
Sieve together 100 g flour and 150 g icing sugar.
Heat 100 g butter over low heat until just melted.
Sieve together 100 g flour and 150 g icing sugar.
Stage 3 - 2 min.
Add 100 g egg white to this mixture.
Stage 4 - 3 min.
Mix thoroughly.
Stage 5 - 2 min.
Pour in the melted butter...
Stage 6 - 2 min.
...and mix again.
Stage 7 - 3 min.
Pour small dollops of batter about 6 cm (2 inches) in diameter on a baking sheet covered with a non-stick sheet or cooking parchment. You will need to work in batches.
Stage 8 - 15 min.
Bake for about 15 minutes. When the biscuits are brown around the edge and still pale in the centre, they are cooked.
If they cook unevenly (this depends on your oven, and is the case with mine), turn the baking sheet round as they finish cooking.
If they cook unevenly (this depends on your oven, and is the case with mine), turn the baking sheet round as they finish cooking.
Stage 9 - 10 min.
Now comes the tricky bit: rolling. Open the oven door, leaving it running, and lay a sheet of cooking parchment on the door.
Lift a biscuit off the baking sheet with a palette-knife and turn it upside-down onto the paper. Roll it up immediately around the pencil you prepared earlier.
Lift a biscuit off the baking sheet with a palette-knife and turn it upside-down onto the paper. Roll it up immediately around the pencil you prepared earlier.
Stage 10
You can see how to roll the biscuits in this video.
Stage 11 - 5 min.
Place the finished biscuits as you make them on a wire rack.
Your Cigarettes Russes are ready once they have cooled.
Your Cigarettes Russes are ready once they have cooled.
Remarks
You can flavour your biscuits by adding ground almonds, citrus zest, or a little orange or lemon juice to the mixture.
For thinner biscuits, use a little less mixture and spread it out into a circle with the back of a tablespoon or palette knife. This will make a thinner biscuit, but it will be a bit more difficult to roll up.
For thinner biscuits, use a little less mixture and spread it out into a circle with the back of a tablespoon or palette knife. This will make a thinner biscuit, but it will be a bit more difficult to roll up.
Keeping:
A few days in an airtight tin.Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,720 Kcal or 7,201 Kj | 15 gr | 224 gr | 85 gr |
| 86 % | 6 % | 21 % | 13 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 382 Kcal or 1,599 Kj | 3 gr | 50 gr | 19 gr |
| 19 % | 1 % | 5 % | 3 % |
| Per piece | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 72 Kcal or 301 Kj | 1 gr | 9 gr | 4 gr |
| 4 % | <1 % | 1 % | 1 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 24 pieces : 1.59 €
- Per piece : 0.07 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
Source
Home made.More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mirlitons, Coconut paste, Stuffed prunes, Succès praliné (praline meringue), Nanou's chocolate cake, ... All |
| Egg white: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Financier batter, Spicy hot toasted cashew nuts, Peach and verbena feuilleté, How to add beaten eggs whites to a mixture, Armagnac marzipan, ... All |
| Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Langoustine gratin, Colcannon, Chicken Brussels pie, Pistachio cream, Tea and white chocolate biscuits, ... All |
| Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hazelnut and orange cake, Fish fillet with preserved lemons, Boeuf (beef) bourguignon, Pesto crackers, How to succeed in making sabayon (syllabub), ... All |
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