Almond tuiles

Name: Almond tuiles
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 6 min
Total time: 16 min
Yield: Makes 20 tuiles
Cuisine: French recipes
Ingredients: 1 large free-range egg white; 55g caster sugar; 25g plain flour; ¼ tsp vanilla extract; 25g melted and cooled butter; flaked almonds, for sprinkling

Published: 31 Mar 13
Updated: 18 Mar 24

Decorate your dessert recipe with these delicate almond tuile biscuits, and your dish will have instant restaurant-worthy good looks.

Next time…how about Swedish almond cake?

Medium
April 2013

Test kitchen approved

Makes 20 tuiles
Takes 10 minutes to make, 6 minutes to cook

Decorate your dessert recipe with these delicate almond tuile biscuits, and your dish will have instant restaurant-worthy good looks.

Next time…how about Swedish almond cake?

Nutrition: per serving

Calories: 30kcals
Fat: 1.5g (0.7g saturated)
Protein: 0.4g
Carbohydrates: 3.6g (2.8g sugars)
Fibre: trace fibre
Salt: trace salt

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Ingredients

1 large free-range egg white
55g caster sugar
25g plain flour
¼ tsp vanilla extract
25g melted and cooled butter
flaked almonds, for sprinkling

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Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/fan170°C/gas 5 and line a baking sheet with baking paper.
Put the egg white in a bowl with the caster sugar and beat with a fork until frothy.
Sift in the plain flour and stir in the vanilla extract.

Stir through 25g melted and cooled butter, then stir well until smooth.
Drop teaspoons of the mixture onto the baking paper at least 10cm apart and smooth into very thin circles (about 8cm diameter) with the back of a spoon. Sprinkle each with a few flaked almonds.
Bake for around 6 minutes until pale golden. Take out of the oven and cool for a second, then lift gently with a palette knife and lay over a rolling pin to form a curved shape. When firm, cool on a wire rack.