Almond dacquoise

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

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

Times:

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

Step by step recipe

1	Beat 5 egg whites, incorporating 2 tablespoons caster sugar halfway through, then 150 g icing sugar when they are stiff.
2	Tip 150 g ground almonds into the meringue. Preheat the oven to 180°C (360°F).
3	Fold in the ground almonds gently.
4	Your dacquoise dough is ready.
5	You can pipe biscuits with a forcing bag like finger biscuits.
6	Or spread the mixture into one big flat biscuit with a metal spatula.
7	You can also make pistachio dacquoise by replacing the ground almonds with ground pistachios.
8	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.

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