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Crispy puff pastry filled with almond cream, crystallized syrup, roasted flaked almonds |

Sweet, Cream, Biscuit Dough

Traditionnal french pastry also known as "sidewalk". Here filled with rum flavored almond cream.

Note

Can be served as a dessert with a larger portion, and we suggest accompanying it with vanilla chantilly.

Ingredients

Recipe for 12 Tapas

Almond cream

150 Gr

Softened butter

150 Gr

Sugar

3 Unit(s)

Egg

150 Gr

Almond powder

20 Gr

Flour

15 Ml

Amber rum

Pastry

1 Unit(s)

Sheet of puff pastry

2 Handful(s)

Sliced almonds

1 Unit(s)

Egg

1 Tbsp

Water

Icing

100 Gr

Icing sugar

25 Ml

Water

Garnish

25 Gr

Icing sugar

Preparation time: 60 min

Preheat your Oven at 400 °F

Almond cream

In a bowl, add the soft butter with sugar and mix energetically. Add the eggs one by one. Add the other ongredients (sieved). Mix well. Add a bit of rum.
Pastry

Bake the almonds on a pastry tray for 5 minutes.

Cut vertically in the middle the pastry leaves. You should have 4 rectangular pastry leaves now.

In the center, add some almonds cream rolls using a pastry bag with a 1.5 cm wide tip. Leave a 1 cm wide band around the leaf. you should be able to do 4 to 5 rolls.

Using a wet brush, wet the 1cm large band. Cover one leaf with another. Press with your fingers to seal the sides.

With the tip of a knife, make some lines all around the pastry.

Brush with a mix of egg and water. Pick on the sides and 3 times on top.

Bake on a pastry tray for 25 to 30 minutes.
Icing

In a bowl, mix water and sugar.

When still hot, brush the pastry with that mix. Sprinkle with almonds.
Finition

Slice your sidewalks and decorate with icing sugar