Flora Doughnuts
Ingrediënten
Ingredients for 10 Pieces
- 4 oz 120 g Nuts, ground
- ⅓ cup 40 g Confectioner’s sugar
- Pulp of 1 vanilla bean
- Dash of cinnamon
- 4 Egg whites
- ¾ cup 100 g Granulated sugar
- About 4 tbsp Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
For the Strawberry Mousse
- 7 oz 200 g Strawberries
- 6 tbsp 50 g Confectioner’s sugar
- 2 tsp 1 cl Cointreau
- 2 Sheets gelatin
- ½ cup 125 ml Whipping cream, sweetened with
- 1 tbsp Confectioner’s sugar
Instructies
- Mix the nuts with confectioner’s sugar, vanilla pulp, cinnamon, and 1(egg white.)
- Beat the rest of the egg whites to stiff peaks with granulated sugar.
- Fold the beaten egg whites bit by bit into the nut mixture.
- Put the batter in a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle, and pipe 20 equally sized doughnuts onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (make half of them slightly flatter to be the bases).
- Sift confectioner’s sugar over them.
- Place in the oven at about 175–200 °F (80–100 °C), leave the oven door slightly open, and dry more than bake the doughnuts for 2½ to 3 hours.
- Remove from oven and let cool.
- Store in a dry place.
- For the cream, purée strawberries with confectioner’s sugar, sieve, and flavor with Cointreau.
- Add cold water to the gelatin, remove the excess water, and dissolve the gelatin in some of the strawberry purée, warmed.
- Add to the rest of the strawberry purée.
- Whip the cream with confectioner’s sugar, fold into the strawberry purée, and chill for 2 hours.
- Pipe the strawberry mousse onto the bases and set the tops on the mousse.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
With the same recipe, you can make about 20 small petits fours.