Chocolate Hazelnut Tuiles

Name: Chocolate Hazelnut Tuiles
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: Makes about 16 tuiles
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons rum; 40 g (1½ oz) plain flour, plus extra for dusting; 5 teaspoons cocoa powder; 50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter, plus extra for greasing; a pinch of salt; 100 g (3½ oz) vanilla caster sugar; 2 large egg whites (size 2); 3 tablespoons double cream; 75 g (3 oz) hazelnuts

Preparation info

Makes about
16
tuiles

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 25

Appears in

The Chocolate Lover's Cookbook

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1987

About

These thin, crisp, deliciously flavoured tuiles can be shaped as cups to make edible ice-cream containers.

Ingredients

75 g (3 oz) hazelnuts
100 g (3½

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Oven temperatures Gas Mark 4/180°C/350°F

Gas Mark 7/220°C/425°F

Preheat the oven to the first setting. Toast the nuts on a baking sheet for 10 minutes. Rub them in a tea towel to remove most of the skins. Chop one third of the nuts and set them aside. Finely grin