Almond Tile Cookies Recipes

ALMOND TUILES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or a Silpat (a French baking mat).
• In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine butter, sugar, and orange juice, stirring until the butter has completely melted. Remove from heat, and add the flour, almonds, and orange zest, whisking to combine.
• Place a heaping teaspoon of batter on prepared baking sheet, and flatten with the back of a spoon. Repeat to make about 6 cookies on each sheet, placing them about 4 inches apart.
• Bake one sheet at a time, rotating sheet once cookies have fully flattened, until cookies are golden, 8 to 10 minutes.
• Transfer baking sheet to a wire rack; let cool 20 seconds. Using a thin spatula, carefully lift tuiles; quickly drape over a rolling pin. Let stand until completely cooled and hardened.

ALMOND TUILES

Steps:

• Whisk the almond flour, salt and baking soda in a bowl. Beat the butter and sugar in a separate bowl with a mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg and vanilla until smooth, then mix in the dry ingredients. Refrigerate the dough until firm, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line 2 baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper. Drop heaping teaspoonfuls of dough about 3 inches apart on the prepared sheets. Bake until golden and crisp, about 8 minutes.
• Let the cookies cool about 2 minutes on the baking sheets. One at a time, gently lift each cookie with an offset spatula. Immediately wrap it around the handle of a wooden spoon to curl. Once it sets, slide the cookie off the handle and let cool on a rack. Repeat with the remaining dough, allowing the baking sheets to cool between batches. (Don't make too many cookies at once; they need to be shaped while still warm.) Serve with sorbet.

ALMOND TUILES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Coat a heavy baking sheet well with cooking spray or line with parchment paper.
• In a bowl whisk together ground almonds, flour, sugar, and salt and whisk in whites, butter, and almond extract until combined well. Drop rounded teaspoons batter about 4 inches apart onto baking sheet and with back of a spoon spread into 3 1/2-inch rounds. Sprinkle each cookie with about 1/2 tablespoon sliced almonds and bake in middle of oven 8 minutes, or until golden.
• Working quickly, remove cookies, 1 at a time, from baking sheet with a thin spatula and drape over a rolling pin to create a curved shape. (If the cookies become too brittle to form on the rolling pin, return baking sheet to oven a few seconds to allow cookies to soften.) Cool cookies completely on rolling pin and transfer to an airtight container. Make more cookies with remaining batter in same manner, spraying or lining baking sheet for each batch. Tuiles may be made 2 days ahead and kept in an airtight container at room temperature.

ALMOND TILE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F In a large bowl, with a whisk, mix egg white, sugar, flour, butter, water and vanilla until homogeneous, no more. Drop the dough, 1 teaspoon at a time, on 2 cookie plates with parchment paper or greased, leaving 2 inches between each. With a metal spatula, spread the tile in a circle of 3 inches of diameter. Put almonds on the tiles.
• Cook, one cookie sheet at a time, in center of preheated oven of 350 F for about 8 minutes or until the sides begin to brown. Put the tiles on a rack and let cool completely. Cook the remaining tiles the same way. (You can prepare the tiles in advance and put them in an hermetic container, separating each layers with waxed paper. They will keep 2 days at room temperature.).