Valentine's Recipes > Almond Biscuit Baskets with a Cream & Fruit Filling
2 organic egg whites
1 tablespoon blanched almonds
1/2 cup caster/superfine sugar
2 tablespoons plain flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons organic butter
for the filling:
3/4 pint organic double cream
strawberries
raspberries
icing sugar to taste
a little grated chocolate
(see measure conversions for more information)
- Whip the egg whites with the sugar until foamy but not stiff.
- Add the sieved flour, vanilla and almonds.
- Melt the butter (do not make it hot) and add to the mixture.
- Mix well.
- Put teaspoonfuls of the mixture, keeping them at least 6 inches apart, onto a buttered baking sheet.
- Flatten the mounds of mixture.
- Bake at 180 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions) for about 5 minutes.
- The biscuits should be golden at the edges.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool a little.
- Whilst the biscuits are still pliable, lift with a flat knife and shape over the base of a small cup (butter the cup first).
- Allow to go completely cold.
- Put the shaped biscuits into an airtight tin.
- You will probably need to practice to get 4 perfect "baskets".
- Just bake two biscuits at a time on one large baking tray.
- Butter it very well and have your two moulds and palette knife ready.
- If the biscuits break when you try to lift them, you are lifting too soon; leave them for a few more seconds. Too long however and they will be too brittle to lift.
- If they break as you shape them over the cup or whatever mould you choose you can pinch the mixture together; a couple of little holes will not matter.
- Whip the cream and sweeten with the icing sugar.
- Check sweetness.
- Fold in the chopped strawberries and whole raspberries.
- Just before serving pile fruit mixture into two or three baskets each.
- Decorate with a sprinkling of grated chocolate.
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How to make almond biscuit baskets with a cream & fruit filling:
These biscuits can be used as a very impressive dessert. Shaping the biscuits can be a little tricky but with practice you can achieve excellent results. It would be advised to have a dry run before the big evening.
Ingredients
for almond biscuits:2 organic egg whites
1 tablespoon blanched almonds
1/2 cup caster/superfine sugar
2 tablespoons plain flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 tablespoons organic butter
for the filling:
3/4 pint organic double cream
strawberries
raspberries
icing sugar to taste
a little grated chocolate
(see measure conversions for more information)
Method
- Put the almonds into a food processor and chop finely.- Whip the egg whites with the sugar until foamy but not stiff.
- Add the sieved flour, vanilla and almonds.
- Melt the butter (do not make it hot) and add to the mixture.
- Mix well.
- Put teaspoonfuls of the mixture, keeping them at least 6 inches apart, onto a buttered baking sheet.
- Flatten the mounds of mixture.
- Bake at 180 degrees centigrade (see temperature conversions) for about 5 minutes.
- The biscuits should be golden at the edges.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool a little.
- Whilst the biscuits are still pliable, lift with a flat knife and shape over the base of a small cup (butter the cup first).
- Allow to go completely cold.
- Put the shaped biscuits into an airtight tin.
- You will probably need to practice to get 4 perfect "baskets".
- Just bake two biscuits at a time on one large baking tray.
- Butter it very well and have your two moulds and palette knife ready.
- If the biscuits break when you try to lift them, you are lifting too soon; leave them for a few more seconds. Too long however and they will be too brittle to lift.
- If they break as you shape them over the cup or whatever mould you choose you can pinch the mixture together; a couple of little holes will not matter.
- Whip the cream and sweeten with the icing sugar.
- Check sweetness.
- Fold in the chopped strawberries and whole raspberries.
- Just before serving pile fruit mixture into two or three baskets each.
- Decorate with a sprinkling of grated chocolate.
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