5 simple and original recipes of French biscuits

Love delicious and flavorful French pies? Especially for the cool evenings we found 5 chic recipes for biscuits that can be easily made at home. With almonds, chocolate, apples and sweet cream — choose any of the vending options and let's go to cook!

 Chocolate biscuit with praline



Preparation time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 sheets puff pastry (pâtes tarts),
• 100 g ground almonds,
• 50 g cream
• 150 g of sugar,
• 100 grams chocolate pralines in tiles,
• 120 g butter,
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• 3 eggs,
• 30 g of flour.

 

The cooking process:

Melt the chocolate in a water bath. Whisk well the butter with the sugar, add another 2 eggs. Mix well the mixture to be homogeneous and air. Add the melted and slightly cooled chocolate, followed by cocoa, almonds, flour and chocolate.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Roll out one sheet of puff pastry and place on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Spread the base biscuit with chocolate cream, not reaching the edges of 3 cm. Cover pie with the second pastry sheet tightly zasypnica region. Carefully decorate the top with a fork or knife (you can put a small incisions-patterns) and brush with lightly beaten egg yolk.

Bake for 35 minutes at a given temperature.

 

Biscuit with potatoes, almonds and leeks



Cooking time: 1-1. 5 hours

Ingredients:

• 1,5 tbsp. raw pistachios,
• 2,5 tbsp. flour,
• 1 tsp salt,
• 1 tsp sugar,
• 240 g chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces.

 

For the filling and decoration:

• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 large leek,
• 120 g of goat cheese,
• 5 tbsp double cream,
• 3 cloves garlic,
• salt,
• freshly ground black pepper,
• flour,
• 4 tbsp chopped dill,
• 2 large potatoes,
• 1 egg.

 

The cooking process:

Grind pistachios in a food processor or with a blender. Mix nuts with flour, salt, sugar and whisk well to combine the ingredients. Add butter and repeat the operation. While running processor, add the mixture in a thin stream 1/2 Cup of ice water. Knead until the dough is smooth. Transfer the dough on working surface and form a ball, wrap in cling film and leave in refrigerator at least 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Heat a pan on medium heat, add 1 tbsp olive oil and chopped leeks (white part). Lightly fry the onion until it becomes transparent, and place it on the dish. In a separate bowl, mix goat cheese, cream, garlic. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Divide the dough into 4 parts. One part roll out into a thin circle with a diameter of approximately 20 cm So that the dough doesn't stick to the work surface, petrusite last meal. Dough place on a baking sheet, the laid parchment. Using silicone blades coat the dough with a thin layer of cheese filling, lay on top a layer of thinly sliced potatoes, petrusite dill, sautéed leeks, a little salt and pepper, sprinkle pie with olive oil.

Free carefully wrap edges of the dough toward the center (see photo). Brush the top with egg yolk. Similarly make 3 more cookies and bake them for 30-40 minutes.

After baking the cake you can top with honey.

 

Apple biscuit with cream



Preparation time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

• 2 packages of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée),
• 1 egg,
• 2 apples.

 

For the cream:

• 50 g butter,
• 50 g of sugar,
• 1 egg,
• 50 g almonds,
• 150g custard (crème pâtissière).

 

The cooking process:

Softened butter, mix with sugar until the mixture is smooth. Add the ground almonds and mix well, then crack in the egg. Add to this mix the well chilled custard and stir to obtain a homogeneous mass.

Apples peel and cut into small cubes.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.

Baking sheet cover with parchment paper and place on first layer of dough. Wet the brush with water and brush the pastry edges (a strip about 5 cm wide). On a dry part of a leaf and apply the cream, and on top of it a layer of apples. The top cover pie with the second sheet of dough and with your fingertips gently zasypnica region. With a fork or knife apply to the Galeta patterns, brush the top with egg yolk. Make the cake a few punctures with a fork (in the process of baking biscuits is not cracked) and put in the oven for 30-35 minutes.

 

Charentais Galeta



Preparation time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

• 250 g flour,
• 125 g of sugar,
• 110 g butter + for greasing forms
• 1 large egg + 1 egg yolk,
• 1 tbsp milk,
• 1 tsp of cognac
• 1/2 pkg. baking powder,
• 1 pinch of salt.

 

The cooking process:

Preheat the oven to 220 degrees. Sift the flour in a deep bowl, add baking powder and sugar. Mix well the dry ingredients.

In a bowl add chopped small cubes of softened butter, salt, cognac and egg. Carefully stir the dough until it becomes smooth and homogeneous.

Flat shape for baking grease with butter. Roll dough into circle and place on prepared sheet or pan. From top to grease the cake with a mixture of egg yolk and milk. Decorate the top of the biscuits with a fork and send in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes.

Serve it warm or cold.

If you wish to the batter you can add chopped nuts or candied fruit.

 

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 Biscuit without butter with almond cream



Preparation time: 35 minutes

Ingredients:

• 2 packages of puff pastry (pâte feuilletée),
• 180 g ground almonds,
• 120 g of powdered sugar,
• 20 ml thick cream (crème épaisse allégée),
• 2 eggs + 1 yolk.

 

The cooking process:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. In a large bowl, whisk 2 eggs and powdered sugar. Add finely ground almonds and cream. Mix well the ingredients.

From one sheet of pastry to form a base and low walls of the pie. Fill the biscuit hazelnut cream and top with another piece of puff pastry. In the center make a small hole for evaporation of excess moisture.

Brush the biscuits lightly beaten egg yolk and send in the oven for 25-30 minutes.

Before serving, the cake is recommended to cool.

 

Cook with love!

 

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Source: paris.zagranitsa.com/article/5032/palchiki-oblizhesh-5-prostykh-i-originalnykh-retseptov-frantsuzskikh-galet