In the midst of the doom and gloom there were tuiles.
Yes, when the weight of the world is on your shoulders, there's something satisfying about these light little biscuits. No multi-layer chocolate cakes this month, just simple vanillary goodness paired with something fruity (you know its January when a DBer recipe instructs you to use fruit.)
The beauty of these biscuits is that you can bend them, shape them, any way you want them. Think hearts, butterflies, pipes and baskets. Beautiful. I decided to craft biscuit baskets to hold a slightly-less-healthy-than-a-fruit-salad banoffee filling. Yum.
The tuiles were flavoured with vanilla sugar. Lucky girl that I am, I was given a jar of sugar packed with Madagascan vanilla (thanks N!) and it scented my tuiles to perfection.
The batter was a doddle to make and even the shaping wasn't as tricky as I feared. The most difficult thing was to spread the batter thinly enough so the biscuits ended up crispy rather than spongy.
For the filling I took perfectly innocent bananas:
and combined them with cream and crumbled meringue:
and homemade toffee sauce (I promise the bananas are still in there):
and a sprinkle of toasted pecans:
I would definitely make the tuiles again. I'd like to make narrow tubes dipped in chocolate and served as a petit-four. There's definitely scope for a savoury cone filled with avocado and prawns too...
This month's challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.
7 comments:
Those look fantastic. And a banoffe filling. Great job.
Glad you liked them ... they look crispy and pretty!
Astonishing.
I gasped at each photo and description as I scrolled down the screen. Cream and crumbled meringue AND homemade toffee sauce??
Your tuiles look over-the-top delicious and the photos are absolutely gorgeous.
Just stumbled upon your blog--thought I was the only one who recognized Laura Ingalls Wilder as a foodie.
Farmer Boy food descriptions are rapturous, but Laura always describes food with such loving detail. I imagine after the Long Winter of starvation food forever after held tantalizing appeal.
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Darling...I'm still speachless looking these awasome photos..still with my toungue out and my empty stomach..:-D do you want to kill me with these fantastic photos :-D
really really a great job dear
kisses
Silvia
yumm.. banana & toffee, my favourite! your tuiles are simply gorgeous.
Beautiful tuiles ... so funny to meet you yesterday, and then find that it was Karen who set this challenge, as she's another of the three DB's I've met :)
Joanna
Wow these look really good! toffee and banana is one of my favourite combinations.
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