Caramelized Almond Spirals

Name: Caramelized Almond Spirals
Yield: Makes 6 to 6½ dozen
Ingredients: ½ recipe Incredibly Quick Puff Pastry Dough, or a 17-ounce package frozen puff pastry dough, defrosted but still well chilled; ½ recipe Incredibly Quick Puff Pastry Dough, or a 17-ounce package frozen puff pastry dough, defrosted but still well chilled; 1 cup chopped almonds; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 1 cup sugar, plus more as needed

Preparation info

Makes
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Cookie Lover's Cookie Book

By Richard Sax

Published 1986

About

Like miniature Danish pastries, very crisp and flaky. Like all pastries made with this dough, these should be eaten on the day they are baked. The assembled, sliced unbaked pastries can be wrapped and frozen, then baked directly from the freezer.

Ingredients

½ recipe Incredibly Quick Puff Pastry Dough, or a 17-ounce package frozen puff pastry dough, defrosted but still well chilled

Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Divide the dough in four equal pieces, cutting straight down with a large sharp knife. Keep three of the pieces of dough refrigerated while you roll the first piece.
Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of the sugar on a work surface. Roll out the dough on the sugar to a neat