Chocolate-Almond Petits Fours

Name: Chocolate-Almond Petits Fours
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 slice Garnishes: almond dried apricots; 454 grams almond paste; 340 grams apricot filling; 177 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 36 servings Chocolate Ganache; 8 larges eggs; 355 milliliters all-purpose flour; 355 milliliters sugar

Chocolate-Almond Petits Fours might be just the dessert you are searching for. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One serving contains 187 calories, 4g of protein, and 10g of fat. This recipe serves 36. If you have garnishes: almond, sugar, apricot filling, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 45 minutes.

Instructions

Grease bottom and sides of 2 (15- x 10-inch) jellyroll pans, and line with wax paper; grease and flour wax paper. Set aside.

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All Purpose Flour

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Wax Paper

Beat butter and almond paste at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy. Gradually add sugar, beating well.

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Almond Paste

Butter

Sugar

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Hand Mixer

Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition.

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Egg

Stir in flour, and spread batter into prepared pans.

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Spread

All Purpose Flour

Bake at 400 for 8 to 10 minutes. Cool in pans on wire racks.

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Oven

Turn 1 cake out onto a flat surface; remove wax paper, and spread with apricot filling. Top with remaining cake, and cut with a 1 1/2-inch round cutter.

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Apricot

Spread

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Wax Paper

Place cakes on a wire rack in a large shallow pan. Using a squeeze bottle, coat top and sides with warm Chocolate Ganache. (Spoon up excess frosting that drips through rack; reheat and refill bottle, and use to continue frosting cakes.) Chill cakes at least 30 minutes. Freeze up to 3 months.

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Chocolate