Napoleon's Hats

Name: Napoleon's Hats
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 42
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 99 grams 3/8 cup almond paste; 170 grams About 3/4 cup butter or margarine, at room temperature; 1 large egg; 2 larges egg whites; 473 milliliters About all-purpose flour; 79 milliliters granulated sugar; 237 milliliters powdered sugar

Napoleon's Hats is a vegetarian recipe with 42 servings. This recipe covers 1% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This hor d'oeuvre has 81 calories, 1g of protein, and 4g of fat per serving. If you have almond paste, butter, powdered sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

In a large bowl, with a mixer on medium speed, beat 3/4 cup butter and granulated sugar until smooth.

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Granulated Sugar

Butter

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Blender

Bowl

Add egg and beat until well blended. Stir in 2 cups flour, then beat just until dough comes together.

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Dough

All Purpose Flour

Egg

In a food processor, whirl powdered sugar and almond paste until blended. In a deep bowl, with a mixer on high speed, beat egg whites until they hold soft peaks. Gently stir in almond mixture until well blended.

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Powdered Sugar

Almond Paste

Egg Whites

Almonds

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Food Processor

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On a lightly floured surface, with a floured rolling pin, roll about half the dough at a time to about 1/16 inch thick. With a floured, 2- to 3-inch round cutter, cut out cookies.

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Cut Out Cookies

Dough

Roll

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Rolling Pin

Place about 1 inch apart on buttered 12- by 15-inch baking sheets.

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Baking Sheet

Place about 1 teaspoon almond mixture in the center of each round, then fold edges over filling toward the center to form a three-cornered hat shape. With your fingers, pinch corners to seal. Gather excess dough into a ball, reroll, and cut out more cookies; fill and fold. Repeat to roll remaining dough and fill and shape cookies.

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Almonds

Dough

Roll

Bake cookies in a 325 regular or convection oven until golden brown, 18 to 20 minutes. If baking two sheets at once in one oven, switch their positions halfway through baking.

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