Alphabet Petit Fours

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 3
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 21
  • 3 Eggs (size M)
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 25 g Cornstarch
  • 100 g Flour
  • 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
  • 200 g Apricot Jam
  • 300 g Marzipan raw mass
  • 4 TABLESPOONS Apricot liqueur
  • 400 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 100 g white couverture
  • 25 g Coconut oil
  • 7-10 Tbsp Sugar
  • baking paper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp One piping bag

Directions

  1. 1

    Separate eggs. Beat the egg whites and 3 tbsp. cold water until stiff, adding sugar. Stir in egg yolks briefly. Mix starch, flour and baking powder. Sift the flour-mix over the mixture and fold in. Spread the sponge mixture evenly on a baking tray (approx. 32 x 39 cm) lined with baking paper. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for about 8 minutes. Remove and turn out onto a tea towel sprinkled with sugar. Remove the baking paper. Let it cool down

  2. 2

    Cut the sponge cake plate in three. Stir the jam until smooth. Knead marzipan with 2 tbsp. liqueur. Roll out rectangularly (approx. 32 x 13 cm) on a work surface dusted with icing sugar. Spread 1 tbsp. liqueur on each side of the marzipan plate and place on a sponge cake plate. Place the second plate on top and spread with jam. Place the third plate on top. Weigh down with a board and chill for about 1 hour

  3. 3

    Chop the two types of envelope door separately. Add about 20 g coconut oil to the dark chocolate coating and melt over a warm water bath. Add 5 g of coconut oil to the white couverture and melt carefully

  4. 4

    Cut the edges of the cake plate straight. Cut into approx. 21 squares (approx. 4 x 4 cm). Cover the petit fours with the dark chocolate coating. Let dry on a cake rack. Pour the white couverture into a piping bag. Decorate the petit fours with it and leave to dry. Decorate with letter plugs

  5. 5

    waiting time approx. 2 1/2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
260 kcal
CARBS
31 g
FATS
13 g
PROTEINS
4 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & PastriesCakeChocolates