From the department of Who Has Time To Make Edible Gifts In Advance Anyhow comes this final-moment recipe, shared by French foods author Cécile Cau on her website a few of days ago. It is a recipe for croquants, which is the French phrase for a variety of crunchy cookies from the South of France, most usually thin and involving almonds.
I go through the recipe and was enchanted by its simplicity. Flour, sugar, eggs, almonds, and a splash of orange flower water: I had all these on hand, and considering that my desk is about four steps from my cooking area, the temptation was excellent to just drop what ever it is I was intended to be undertaking and bake a batch.
I halved the recipe, seeking to get it for a check drive before I committed 3 cups of almonds to it, and modified a handful of items: I used a mixture of standard and light entire wheat flour, reduced the amount of sugar, determined an volume of orange blossom water that appeared correct to me (Cécile’s recipe didn’t give a measurement), and extra a little bit of salt, both combined into the dough and sprinkled on just before baking.
The end result is a really delightful, crisp, slender cookie, not also sweet, and subtly (but noticeably) flavored with orange blossom. It could be compared to biscotti or cantuccini, and certainly they are cousins, but these are two to 3 times thinner, which makes a important — and in my viewpoint, desirable — variation in the ultimate texture and ingesting expertise.
So, will you give these a test? And do you have any final-moment edible present ideas to share?
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