Pithiviers

Recipe courtesy Gale Gand

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Total Time:
1 hr 55 min
Prep
1 hr 0 min
Cook
55 min
Yield:
12 servings
Level:
Intermediate
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Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • 4 tablespoons butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 cup ground blanched almonds
  • 1/4 teaspoon almond and vanilla extracts, each
  • 2 tablespoons dark rum
  • 2 sheets puff pastry
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tablespoon water

Directions

In a food processor, grind together the sugar, butter, egg, almonds, extracts and rum until light and fluffy. Line a shallow 6-inch bowl with plastic wrap and spoon in the nut mixture. Smooth the top flat and chill in the freezer 30 minutes to form a disk of firm nut filling.

Preheat oven to 475 degrees F.

Meanwhile, roll the puff pastry out a bit thinner just to flatten it and make the sheets square, about 10 inches, then chill them. Using a pizza cutter and a lid or cake pan as your guide, cut the largest disk possible out of both pieces of pastry.

In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and water to make an egg wash. Place one of the pastry disks on a parchment lined sheet pan and paint a 2-inch border on the edge of the pastry with the egg-wash.

Pop the chilled nut filling out of the bowl, peel off the plastic, and place it in the center of the pastry. Carefully place the second pastry disk on top and ease it over the nut filling smoothing it out on the edges to match up the bottom piece. Brush the whole top surface with egg wash. Using a small sharp knife, score the surface of the pastry decoratively in a spiral pattern.

Bake for 15 minutes, then turn the oven down to 400 degrees F for 30 to 40 minutes more. Ten minutes before the cake is done, sprinkle it with powdered sugar then finish baking. Cut into wedges to serve.

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  • on June 26, 2008

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    THIS PUFF PASTRY RECIDPE HAS THE BAKING INSTRUCTIONS INCORRECT
    475 FOR 15 MINUTES
    MY CAKE WAS BURNT TO A CRISP AND I HAD TO THROW IT AWAY
    IT EVEN HAS FURTHER BAKING TIME FOR 30 MIN AT 400 DEGREES

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