Name: Almond palmiers
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Ingredients: 1 cup (160 grams) blanched almonds; 1/3 cup (75 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar; 50 gram butter; 2 sheets ready-rolled puff pastry

Ingredients

1 cup (160 grams) blanched almonds

1/3 cup (75 grams) firmly packed light brown sugar

50 gram butter

2 sheets ready-rolled puff pastry

Method

1.Preheat oven to 200°C.

2.Process nuts, sugar and butter until finely chopped.

3.Sprinkle one pastry sheet with half the nut mixture; fold two opposite sides of pastry inwards to meet in the centre. Flatten folded edges. Fold each side in half again to meet in the centre; flatten slightly. Fold two sides in half again to meet in the centre.

4.Repeat process with remaining pastry sheet and nut mixture. Cut pastry into 1cm (½-inch) slices; place, cut-side up, on baking paper-lined oven trays. Bake about 15 minutes; cool.

To give the pastry an extra golden shine, brush it with a little egg before baking. Serve topped with a scoop of ice cream, if you like, or sandwich with some nutella, or jam and whipped cream
Note

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