Almond biscuit is a cupcake made from beaten eggs and almond flour. This dessert, like no other, requires a confectioner to carefully select the ingredients, strictly follow the recipe and attention to the temperature regime.
Types of Biscuits
There are many recipes for this dessert. Most often they are divided into the following types:
- Classic - it is made from flour, sugar and eggs.
- Genoise - a little butter is added to the dough, which makes the finished cake more tender and juicy.
- Angelic - only proteins are present in the recipe.
However, the differences in biscuits on this do not pump. If you decide to make a honey cake, then do not forget to add a little honey to the dough, if chocolate - then cocoa powder. Almond biscuit, you guessed it, turns out if you replace part of the usual flour with almond crumbs.
Cooking features
The famous pastry chef, showman and TV presenter Alexander Seleznev discovered the secret to making the perfect biscuit. He claims that the most common mistake made by inexperienced cooks is poorly beaten eggs. It would seem, what is the difficulty here? It turns out that in order to achieve the desired result, eggs and sugar should be heated in a water bath, and then beat with a mixer for at least ten minutes. The finished product should resemble a quality shaving foam. If you do not take this advice, then prepare for the fact that the biscuit first rises well in the oven and then “falls”.
Gioconda almond biscuit
This dessert can be used for cooking rolls or as a basis for a cake. Cake turns out to be very thin, elastic and tender. That is why it bends so easily, without forming cracks and creases. In addition, the finished almond biscuit does not crumble, does not soften with cream or syrup. You can cook it according to the following recipe:
- Beat two chicken eggs and 50 grams of powdered sugar into a lush mass.
- Add 50 grams of almond and 20 grams of wheat flour to the mixture. Whip the foods again.
- Take two more eggs and divide them into squirrels and yolks. We need only the first ingredient. So whisk the whites into the foam, and then carefully mix them into the dough.
The finished mixture should be liquid. Pour it into a mold and bake in the oven until cooked.
Almond Dacoise
We offer to prepare a delicious dessert that can be used as the basis for a cake. This almond biscuit, whose name can be translated as "Dacian", appeared in the French city of Dax, located in southwestern France. The recipe for its preparation can be found here:
- To begin, cut a sheet of parchment that is the same size as the baking sheet. After that, draw a circle or square with a pencil - this will be the outline of your workpiece. Turn the sheet with the pattern down and place it on a baking sheet.
- Pour 100 grams of almond flour and 60 grams of powdered sugar into a deep bowl. Add 30 grams of plain wheat flour.
- Mix the dry ingredients with a whisk and sift through a sieve if you find any lumps.
- Beat 160 grams of protein with a mixer at low speed. Add 60 grams of powdered sugar in several doses. You need to finish mixing only when the meringue becomes stable and acquires brilliance.
- Put whipped proteins on top of the dry mixture, and then gently mix the ingredients with a silicone spatula.
- Next, put the dough in a pastry bag and put it on a baking sheet covered with parchment. For example, you can give the cake the shape of a circle if you lay out the workpiece in a spiral.
The almond biscuit, whose name sounds so exotic, should be sprinkled with powdered sugar and baked in a preheated oven.
Chocolate Almond Biscuit
Cakes made according to this recipe are soft, delicate and very flexible. That is why it is often used to make cakes or rolls. How to bake chocolate almond biscuit? The recipe is very simple:
- Break four eggs into a bowl, and then use a fork to lightly mix the yolks with the whites.
- In a mixer bowl, combine 160 grams of almond flour, 130 grams of icing sugar, 15 grams of honey and half an egg mixture.
- Beat products for exactly five minutes.
- Add the remaining eggs to the bowl and stir the food for another eight minutes.
- Separately, beat two protein and 20 grams of sugar to steady peaks.
- In the almond dough, add two tablespoons of meringue and gently mix the products. When the mass becomes uniform, add another portion of the proteins, and so on until they run out.
- Sift 20 grams of cocoa and 25 grams of flour through a sieve and combine in several stages with the dough.
- Add 30 grams of butter melted and cooled to room temperature.
Cover the baking sheet with parchment, and then lay a thin layer of half the dough. Level the future cake with a spatula, put it in a preheated oven and bake until cooked. Cook the second half of the dough in the same way.
Cake "Tenderness"
What is a custard almond biscuit called? In our case, it will be a cake, which is easy to prepare for an ordinary tea party or for a festive table. Dessert recipe can be read below:
- Put four yolks in a bowl, mix them with the zest of one lemon and 125 grams of ground almonds.
- Beat six yolks with a mixer, gradually adding 100 grams of sugar to them.
- Combine the prepared foods and add another 125 grams of almond flour to them.
- Pour the dough into a detachable form and bake the cake until cooked in the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
- To cook custard, boil 250 grams of milk in a saucepan with three tablespoons of sugar.
- Mix a spoonful of starch with two yolks.
- Beat the prepared foods with a mixer, and then put them back on fire. Wait until the mixture boils, then remove it from the stove and cool.
- Mix the cream with 150 grams of room temperature butter.
Cut the cake in half, make a layer of cream, and then spread the sides and the surface of the cake. Garnish dessert with almond flakes and grated chocolate.
Tea roll
We figured out the cake. And what is the name of the almond biscuit with cream, if you cook it differently? We offer our option - delicious roll with nutty taste.
- Mix 75 grams of chopped almonds with 60 grams of powdered sugar.
- Add chicken egg and two yolks to the products.
- Beat five proteins with 40 grams of sugar in a strong foam and combine with prepared foods.
- Put half a teaspoon of soda and 60 grams of flour in the dough.
- Grease a baking sheet or cover it with baking paper. Pour the dough and bake until tender.
- Put the hot cake on a napkin, wrap it with a roll and put in the cold.
- Boil 250 ml of cream and add to them 200 grams of chocolate, previously broken into pieces.
- Separately, beat with a mixer 150 grams of mascarpone, and then mix it with chocolate cream.
- Lubricate the biscuit with the resulting cream, give it a roll shape, wrap in cling film and refrigerate.
After a couple of hours, the dessert can be taken out, chopped and served.
Lean roll
Almond biscuit is a wonderful treat that can be cooked even in fasting. Read his recipe here:
- Prepare juice from one lemon and one orange, and then mix it with pre-prepared zest.
- Beat the prepared ingredients with a mixer, adding to them 80 grams of vegetable oil and 15 ml of wine vinegar.
- Gradually introduce into the dough 100 grams of sugar, 90 grams of almond and white flour, as well as salt and a little soda.
- Bake the cake.
- Whip the vanilla powder mixture of vegetable fats and coconut milk for the cream.
- Lubricate the almond biscuit with cream and roll it into a roll.
Sprinkle the dessert with almond petals and place in the cold.