Giant Tuiles Large Tile Cookies Food

TUILE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C fan/375°F/gas 5.
• Place all the ingredients in a bowl and stir together with a spoon until well combined.
• Leave to chill in the fridge for 10 minutes - this will make your batter easy to spread out thinly on the baking sheet.
• Line 2 baking sheets with baking paper or a silicone mat and spoon the mixture into oval discs - using the back of a spoon - to about 6cm (2.5") in diameter. Space them apart, as they will spread out during baking.
• Bake in separate batches* (one tray at a time) in the oven for about 10 minutes - keep your eye on them as of 8 minutes, as they cook fast. They should be toasted around the edges and cooked but golden in the middle.
• Straight from the oven, transfer each flat tuile (using a palet knife or pie slice) to a rolling pin (jam jar, sieve, bottle) to shape them to their tuile (roof-tile) shape. They cool and shape quickly. Otherwise slightly fold the ends into a wire rack to cool and shape.

GIANT COOKIE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Tip the butter and sugar into a large mixing bowl, beat until combined, then stir in the yolks and vanilla. Tip in the flour, baking powder, chocolate chips, a pinch of sea salt and any other fillings you want to add. Mix until a crumbly dough forms.
• Lightly butter a 25cm ovenproof frying pan. Spoon in and flatten the cookie mixture. For a gooey dessert, bake for 20 mins, leave to rest for 5 mins, then scoop straight from the pan and serve with ice cream, if you like. For a firmer cookie you can cut, bake for 30 mins, then leave to cool completely before cutting into wedges.

TUILES

Steps:

• In an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter at medium speed until creamy, about 30 seconds. Add the confectioners' sugar and flour and mix until combined. Add the egg whites one at a time, beating after each addition just until well blended, about 1 minute in all. Refrigerate the batter for 30 minutes.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Have a rolling pin at hand. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray or line it with parchment paper.
• Spoon 2 teaspoons of the batter onto the baking sheet and with a small, offset metal spatula, spread it evenly into a 3-inch circle. Repeat to form more tuiles, baking only 6 to 8 at a time. Refrigerate the remaining batter while you bake the tuiles.
• Bake the tuiles for 4 to 6 minutes, until lightly browned around the edges. Remove from the oven and immediately shape the tuiles, lifting up each one with a metal spatula and draping it over the rolling pin so it curves, just until set. Repeat with the remaining batter. Store the tuiles in a cool dry place in an airtight container for up to 1 week.

LACY LEMON TUILES

Steps:

• Combine the sugar and flour, then stir in the lemon juice and melted butter until smooth.
• Refrigerate the batter for a few hours.
• When you are ready to bake the tuiles-.
• Preheat oven to 400*F.
• Place 1 teaspoon of batter on a parchment lined cookie sheet and spread it out as thinly as you can with the back of a spoon (or your finger).
• Repeat until sheet has 6 cookies on it.
• Bake for about 7 minutes, or until cookies are lacy and browning at the edges.
• Remove from oven and let rest for just 1 minute.
• Remove the tuiles with a thin spatula and drape over a rolling pin or wine bottle until cool.
• Repeat with second tray.
• Best to serve that day.

GIANT TUILES (LARGE TILE COOKIES)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
• Scatter the almonds on a baking sheet and place in the oven. Bake until lightly browned, about seven minutes, checking carefully to make sure they don't burn. Put two cups of the almonds in a mixing bowl. Set aside.
• Put the remaining half a cup of almonds into the container of a food processor or electric blender and blend thoroughly. Add the blended almonds to the mixing bowl. Add the sugar, eggs and flour and stir to blend. Start stirring with a wooden spoon while gradually adding the melted butter. Refrigerate for an hour or longer.
• When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 300 degrees.
• You may bake these cookies on a nonstick baking sheet or a regular baking sheet lined with a cut-out sheet of parchment paper.
• For each cookie, scoop about a quarter cup of the batter at intervals of about three inches on the baking sheet. You should bake one batch of, perhaps, six cookies at a time.
• Dip the tines of a table fork in water and press down over the top of each cookie to flatten it into a circle measuring about five inches in diameter.
• Place the baking sheet in the oven and bake 15 minutes.
• Let cool two to three minutes, but work quickly. You must not let the cookies stand too long or they will harden or become too firm to be molded. While the cookies are still soft and warm, remove them by sliding a pancake turner under each. The moment each is removed, transfer it into an oval-shaped bread pan or over the side of a wine bottle to give each a round, half-moon shape.