Apricot Vanilla Dacquoise
Ingrediënten
- 7 oz Pate brisée dough
- 7 oz Vanilla ice cream
- 16 Preserved apricot halves
- Strawberry purée
- Mint and frothed sour cream to garnish
- Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
- Butter for the forms
For the Meringue
- 2 Egg whites
- 7 tbsp 100 g Granulated sugar
Instructies
- Preheat oven to 340 °F (170 °C).
- Prepare the basic pâte brisée dough.
- Roll out about 4mm thick and cut out circles (about 3 in (8 cm) diameter) with a cookie cutter.
- Place in buttered tartlet forms (2½ in (6 cm) diameter).
- Stipple the bases of the tartlets (poke several times with a fork) and bake for about 10 minutes.
- Remove tartlets from pans and let cool.
- Raise oven temperature to 465 °F (240 °C) or maximum upper heat.
- For the meringue, beat the egg whites and granulated sugar to stiff peaks.
- Put one scoop of vanilla ice cream in each tartlet.
- Halve the apricot halves again and arrange around the ice cream to create a dome.
- With a piping bag fitted with a small round nozzle, cover the dome in little dots, creating a little “hedgehog.
- ” Bake for about 5 minutes.
- Serve with strawberry purée, mint, frothed sour cream, and confectioner’s sugar.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
Unspeakably Sweet
“Dacquoise” may be unpronounceable outside of France, but what is hidden behind this cute little meringue hedgehog is, how you say, delicious. Hiding behind the word “Dacquoise” are the residents of the French town of Dax, north of Bayonne, which has been home to a hot spring since Roman times. And as it always seems to be with spas, Dax is rife with spa romances as well as spa confectioners—and with them, diet cheating in the form of sweet delicacies. What Ischler cakes and Zaunerstollen is to those in Bad Ischl, Dacquoise is to the residents of Dax—and even more, to their spa guests.
“Dacquoise” may be unpronounceable outside of France, but what is hidden behind this cute little meringue hedgehog is, how you say, delicious. Hiding behind the word “Dacquoise” are the residents of the French town of Dax, north of Bayonne, which has been home to a hot spring since Roman times. And as it always seems to be with spas, Dax is rife with spa romances as well as spa confectioners—and with them, diet cheating in the form of sweet delicacies. What Ischler cakes and Zaunerstollen is to those in Bad Ischl, Dacquoise is to the residents of Dax—and even more, to their spa guests.
