Crisp Dessert Recipes - Almond Petits Fours Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 egg whites

• 100 g/4 oz/1 cup ground almonds

• 50 g/2 oz/1/4 cup caster (superfine) sugar

• 1.5 ml/1/4 tsp almond essence (extract) Rice paper

• Glace (candied) cherries, angelica leaves and whole blanched almonds, to decorate

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Method:

1. Whisk the egg whites until stiff. Fold in the almonds, sugar and almond essence.

2. Spoon into a piping bag fitted with a large star tube (tip) and pipe small rosettes and 's' shapes on to rice paper on baking (cookie) sheets.

3. Decorate some with halved glace cherries, some with angelica leaves and some with blanched almonds.

4. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4 for 20 minutes until golden brown.

5. Leave until cold, then cut the rice paper round each petit four. Store in an airtight tin.