Almond tuiles
These delicious little biscuits ("tiles" in French) get their crunch and lightness from the use of flaked almonds rather than ground.
It is not difficult to succeed, you just need to work fast after taking them out of the oven.
It is not difficult to succeed, you just need to work fast after taking them out of the oven.
346K 45 4.4
Last modified on: August 21th 2019
Keywords for this recipe:TilesFinesCrunchyAlmondsSmall cakesPastryFor 30 tuiles, you will need:
- 1
1 ½ tablespoon butter - 2
1 cup flakeds almonds - 3
1⁄3 cup caster sugar - 4
1 ½ tablespoon flour - 5
1⁄3 cup egg white - 6
5 tablespoons milk
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Resting | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 min. | 30 min. | 18 min. | 1 hour 18 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
Stage 2 - 2 min.
In a bowl mix 1 cup flakeds almonds, 1⁄3 cup caster sugar and 1 ½ tablespoon flour.
Stage 3 - 30 min.
Add melted butter and 1⁄3 cup egg white, mix well, then refrigerate for approximately 30 minutes.
Stage 4 - 5 min.
Shaping tuiles
Preheat the oven to 360°F (180°C).
Put a cooking parchment on a baking sheet, deposit small heaps of mixture, approximately the size of a 2 € (or £2) coin.
They should not be too close together because they will spread out flat.
Stage 5
With a fork dipped in milk, flatten each heap of mixture carefully.
The more your future tuile is flattened, the crisper and thinner it will be after cooking.
The more your future tuile is flattened, the crisper and thinner it will be after cooking.
Stage 6
Don't worry if you have some "holes" in the middle of tuiles, they won't show after cooking.
Stage 7 - 15 min.
If you prefer regular shape, still using the fork dipped in milk, even up the edges of your future tuiles.
Stage 8 - 15 min.
Baking
Do this with all the small heaps.And cook in the oven for 10/15 minutes.
Watch carefully for colouration, especially towards the end of cooking time. The ideal tuile is (according to some) brown around the edge, and still quite pale in the middle.
Stage 9 - 5 min.
As soon as the tuiles are cooked, you need to remove the baking sheet from the oven as quickly as possible, because hot the tuiles are still soft and easy to handle. But as soon as they cool, they harden and become brittle. So as quickly as possible, remove tuiles from paper using a palette-knife, and place them on a rack to cool.
If you wait too long, they will cool on the paper and stick to it firmly, and then will inevitably break when you try to separate them, which would be a pity...
If you wait too long, they will cool on the paper and stick to it firmly, and then will inevitably break when you try to separate them, which would be a pity...
Stage 10
Wait until they have cooled and become very crisp before eating.
Stage 11 - 1 min.
Curved tuiles
If you want to have "professional" tuiles, i.e. evenly curved tuiles, as soon as they come off the paper you must mould them over something round like a glass, a baguette mould or even a proper tuile mould which is a kind of non-stick channel. The tuile (still hot) will mould under its own weight and set to this shape as it cools.
Stage 12 - 2 min.
Let cool before unmould, curved.
Remarks
The tuiles should be kept in an airtight tin, but unfortunately not for very long as they will go soft.
For the ideal tuile about which I spoke before, it is also a matter of taste, I am the only one at home to prefer them well cooked (no "white" in the middle), well browned and very crisp.
To serve an ice cream or a sorbet with a tuile stuck in the top is a very very good idea.
For the ideal tuile about which I spoke before, it is also a matter of taste, I am the only one at home to prefer them well cooked (no "white" in the middle), well browned and very crisp.
To serve an ice cream or a sorbet with a tuile stuck in the top is a very very good idea.
Keeping
1 or 2 days in a closed metal box.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,217 Kcal or 5,095 Kj | 27 gr | 107 gr | 76 gr |
| 61 % | 10 % | 10 % | 11 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 353 Kcal or 1,478 Kj | 8 gr | 31 gr | 22 gr |
| 18 % | 3 % | 3 % | 3 % |
| Per tuiles | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 41 Kcal or 172 Kj | 1 gr | 4 gr | 3 gr |
| 2 % | <1 % | <1 % | <1 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 30 tuiles : 1.96 €
- Per tuiles : 0.07 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
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Source
After Gaston Lenôtre, and friendly dedicated to Séverine, Stéphnaie, Danielle and Claudie.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Flakeds almonds: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Baked Alaska, Moist cereal bars, Toasted flaked almonds, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Nanou's chocolate cake, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Corsican tarts, Flambéd bananas , Brioche dough, Flognarde, Paris flan filling, ... All |
 | Egg white: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Financier batter, Meringues, Croute à thé, Hazelnut and orange cake, Piped petits-fours, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Muffin dough, Potatoes with prawns, Chocolate and matcha tea biscuits, Comtoise apple charlotte, Norwegian tartines, ... All |
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