Angel Eyes

AUTHOR
Lenora Decker
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
90 mins
TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 32
  • 75 g Dark chocolate coating
  • 75 g crushed almonds
  • 175 g Flour
  • 120 g Icing sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 2 TEASPOONS fine orange fruit
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 100 g cold butter
  • 32 Almond kernels
  • 125 g Raspberry Jam
  • 1-2 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur or orange juice
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Chop the couverture and melt it on a hot water bath. Mix ground almonds, flour 70 g icing sugar, salt and orange fruit. Add egg, butter in flakes and chocolate coating. Knead everything with the dough hooks of the hand mixer to a smooth dough. Cover and chill for about 1 hour.

  2. 2

    Add boiling water to the almond kernels and leave to stand for about 5 minutes. Drain the almonds, remove the skin. Drain almonds on kitchen paper. Form approx. 32 balls (approx. 3 cm Ø) from the dough. Put them on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper and press them slightly flat. Press small depressions in the middle of the balls, e.g. with a wooden spoon handle. Heat up the jam, pass it through a fine sieve and distribute it in the hollows. Place 1 almond on each. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 12 minutes.

  3. 3

    with a wooden spoon handle. Heat up the jam, pass it through a fine sieve and distribute it in the hollows. Place 1 almond on each. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 12 minutes. Let cool on a cake rack. Mix 50 g icing sugar and liqueur to a smooth glaze. Pour the icing into a freezer bag, cut off a small corner and decorate the thalers with it, let dry

  4. 4

    waiting time approx. 2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
100 kcal
CARBS
11 g
FATS
5 g
PROTEINS
2 g

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