Petit Fours
Petit Fours is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the bakery category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 300 g flour
- 80 g sugar
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 3 drops lemon flavor
- 125 g ground walnuts
- 1 egg
- 200 g butter
- 200 g whipping cream
- 50 g sugar
- 4 yolks
- 1 packet vanilla sugar
- 200 g coconut oil
- cherry brandy
- 300 g white chocolate couverture
- sugar lettering (ready-made)
- 50 marzipan paste
- Food coloring (as desired)
Instructions
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1.
Sift flour onto the work surface. Create a well in the center, add sugar, vanilla sugar, lemon flavor, walnuts and egg, and mix with part of the flour into a thick dough. Add the cold butter cut into small pieces and quickly knead all ingredients from the center into a smooth dough.
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2.
Place the dough in the refrigerator, then roll it out to a thickness of about 1 cm, cut into 12‑cm wide strips, place on a baking sheet and bake at 200 °C for 10–12 minutes. Remove the strips from the tray and let them cool.
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3.
For the filling, mix cream with sugar, yolks and vanilla sugar and heat to about 60 °C. Add the small pieces of coconut oil and stir until the fat melts. Chill in the refrigerator for about an hour.
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4.
Afterwards beat very frothy with a hand mixer and season with cherry brandy.
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5.
Brush each pastry strip with the mixture and assemble them into squares. Cut the seams into cubes.
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6.
Melt the chopped white chocolate couverture over a warm water bath, let it cool slightly. Dip the Petit Fours in the chocolate with a praliné fork and place on parchment paper not too close together.
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7.
Optionally draw fine lines with sugar lettering and create small decorations with colored marzipan paste, placing them on top.
