Chocolate Tuiles

Name: Chocolate Tuiles
Ingredients: 125 g/4¼ oz/generous ½ cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 100 g/3¾ oz/scant 1 cup plain (all-purpose) flour, plus extra for dusting; 125 g/4¼ oz/scant ¾ cup caster (superfine) sugar; 3 egg whites; 25 g/1 oz/¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting

Preparation info

Makes
20-30

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Home-made Sweets & Candies

By Claire Ptak

Published 2022

About

Light and crisp, these make the perfect accompaniment to ice cream or chocolate mousse. You can pipe them into shapes or bend them while they are still hot, or leave them in long flat strips. You could also form them into the first letters of people’s names to add a personal touch to a special dessert.

Ingredients

125 g/4¼ oz/generous ½ cup butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
100

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Grease a baking sheet and dust it with flour. Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4.
Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy

Energy 62kcal/260kJ; Protein 0.8g; Carbohydrate 7g, of which sugars 4.4g; Fat 3.6g, of which saturates 2.4g; Cholesterol 10mg; Calcium 9mg; Fibre 0.2g; Sodium 46mg