Recipe

Almond Petits Fours Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Peetabear / All my dishes 8 months, 1 week ago these are so cute... they would be cute for Easter.... the recipe and photo are from Good Housekeeping Cook:15m Servings:24	Peetabear
	mini cakes petits almond with fontant

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Ingredients

Almond Cake

1/2 package(s) (3 1/2 ounces) almond paste

1/2 cup(s) granulated sugar

1/2 cup(s) butter or margarine, softened

3 large eggs

1/2 cup(s) all purpose flour

1/4 teaspoon(s) baking powder

1/4 teaspoon(s) salt

Fondant Glaze

4 tablespoon(s) butter or margarine, cut up

5 tablespoon(s) milk

2 tablespoon(s) light corn syrup

Pinch salt

1 box (16 ounces) confectioners' sugar

Blue, pink, green, and/or yellow paste food coloring

Directions

Preheat oven to 350° F. Grease and flour 24 mini muffin-pan cups

Prepare Almond Cake:

Crumble almond paste into food processor bowl with knife blade attached. Add granulated sugar and pulse until almond paste is finely ground. Add butter and process until smooth. Add eggs and process until combined, occasionally stopping processor and scraping side of bowl with rubber spatula. Add flour, baking powder and salt, and process until blended. Spoon batter into muffin-pan cups, filling almost to top

Bake cakes 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown and tops spring back when lightly touched with finger. Cool cakes in pans on wire rack 10 minutes. Invert cakes from pans onto wire rack to cool completely

Prepare Fondant Glaze

In microwave-safe medium bowl, heat butter in microwave oven on High about 30 seconds or until melted. Stir in milk, corn syrup, and salt, then stir in confectioners' sugar until glaze mixture is smooth. Reserve 2 tablespoons white glaze for decorating tops of petits fours; cover with plastic wrap to prevent drying out. Divide remaining glaze into desired number of custard cups; tint with choice of food coloring

Decorate petits fours

If necessary, trim rounded sides of cakes so they will sit flat. Set cakes, still on wire rack, over waxed paper. Spoon tinted glazes over cakes as desired, allowing glaze to run down sides and drip onto waxed paper. If necessary, use small metal spatula to spread glaze evenly over tops and sides of cakes. Allow glaze to set, about 25 minutes

When glaze on cakes is set, spoon reserved white glaze and remaining tinted glazes into separate heavy-duty self-sealing plastic bags, with corners snipped to 1/8-inch opening; use to pipe dots, lines, pretty designs, and/or letters on top of cakes. Allow designs to dry completely

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Comments

aussie_meat_pie 8 months, 1 week ago said:
How cute - sounds yummy too ~ 5

karlyn255 8 months, 1 week ago said:
Love is one

kidaria 8 months, 1 week ago said:
This sounds right up my alley! Bookmarking to try soon!

annieamie 1 week, 4 days ago said:
You can never have enough almond paste! I have been meaning to make petit fours for years. Its just so easy to go to a bakery and buy a few of them, sneak them into the house and enjoy them after everyone goes to bed. But now that I have the recipe, I suppose that I'll have to make some and share. Or not! ;) .. Thank you!

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