Almond Schnitten
Ingredients
- 1 stick plus 2½ tbsp 150 g Butter
- 7 Egg yolks
- 1¼ cup 150 g Confectioner’s sugar for the yolk mixture
- Salt
- 1 cup plus 3 tbsp 150 g Flour
- Pinch of Baking powder
- 7 Egg whites
- 1¼ cup 150 g Confectioner’s sugar for the egg whites
- 3.5 oz 100 g Almonds, ground
- 3.5 oz 100 g Chocolate, ground
- 1 tbsp Rum
- Butter for the baking sheet
- About 1¼ cup 150 g apricot marmalade
- Some couverture to decorate
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 340 °F (170 °C).
- Cream the butter with egg yolks, a dash of salt, and sugar.
- Fold in flour and baking powder.
- Spread on a buttered baking sheet and brush with marmalade.
- Beat the egg whites to stiff peaks with confectioner’s sugar and fold in the ground almonds and chocolate.
- Flavor with rum.
- Spread the egg whites evenly on top of the dough.
- Bake for about 35 minutes.
- Cut into little squares.
- Melt chocolate, fill a parchment paper cone, and pipe thin lines across the schnitten.
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