The cookies Pochas Fours, are made with a pastry bag called "poached" in French, which gives the name to these cookies. The mass , the cookies Pochas Fours, has the peculiarity that is made with ground almonds without butter. That is why the rarely performed because in my country almonds are quite faces. Perhaps in your country are lucky enough that almonds, are cheaper and are encouraged to make the cookie recipe Pochas Fours, since they are some biscuits exquisite, original and very simple to prepare.
Recipe Ingredients:
- 135 grams of ground almonds
- 90 grams of caster sugar
- 2
egg whites - 2 tablespoons apricot jam casting
- 2 drops vanilla extract or
- 2 drops almond extract
- almonds halved
- candied cherries, halved
- whole hazelnuts
NOTE: almonds the items, the candied cherries and hazelnuts are for decoration. So we can use only one of the alternatives or a mixture of them, as we prefer.
Recipe Preparation:
- Preheat oven to 180 º C.
- Lining two baking sheets with paper.
- Sift the ground almonds and sugar twice.
- Place in a bowl, add a of egg whites , the apricot jam and essences of vanilla and almond .
- Mix and add a bit of egg white left, enough to get a firm consistency (the mixture should be so thick you can hardly work with pastry bag ).
- With a spoon, place the mixture in a pastry bag with Boquila star of 1 cm. in diameter.
- Place rosettes of 4 cm. diameter on plate lined with paper.
- Decorate each cookie with half almonds, half cherry or hazelnut whole, as desired.
- Let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Bake cookies 15 minutes or until browned, but not much.
- Cool on a wire rack.
Suggestions:
- The cookies, we can decorate with any of the three options, according to our taste, and according to ingredients, we have at hand.
- The Fours Pochas cookies, you can retain up to 2 weeks if stored in an airtight container.
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- Galletitas Danesas
- Lenguas de gato
- Galletitas de chocolate y avellanas
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