Recipe No.2 - Almond Tuiles

Today I made the second recipe from my book, with the weather so horrid I flicked through and found a few recipes with only basic ingredients that I already had in the cupboard so that I didn't have to set foot outside, settling on Almond Tuiles.

The recipe for these is great! It has several step by step pictures to guide you through what it should look like. The actual mixture is really simple to make but baking it takes a bit of patience and experimentation, the  mixture needs to be very thin on the baking sheet - at first I was worried that each were too thin and would break but once cooked they are quite stable. 

Secondly it is pretty time consuming as only 2 or 3 can be baked at a time. I halved the recipe as the recipe states that it makes 28 and I wanted to limit the amount of calories floating about in the kitchen! Even so it still took me about 45 minutes to bake and mould all of the mixture. I moulded some around an apple (I didn't have any oranges as the book suggests) to make a basket and a few around a rolling pin to form the classic tuile shape, within about 30 seconds they were hard enough to place on a cooling rack. 

To finish I filled the baskets with vanilla custard and topped with a strawberry and grated chocolate - a nice revision treat for my sister! The first few batches did have a softer centre but the later ones improved as I got the hang of it.