Calissons d’Aix Recipe – A delicious typical French sweet
Ingredients to make Calissons d’Aix – A delicious typical French sweet:
- 250 grams of ground almond
- 250 grams of icing sugar
- 100 grams of bitter orange marmalade
- 100 grams of apricot jam
- For the glaze
- 1 egg white
- 150 grams of icing sugar
How to make Calissons d’Aix – A delicious typical French sweet:
- To make our caissons d’Aix, we put the ground almonds, the 250 g of icing sugar and the two jams in a pot. We mix and put on the fire, mixing constantly so that the dough does not stick. We cook between 5 and 10 minutes. The mass will have to detach from the walls of the saucepan
- Let the dough cool. Then, flour a work surface with icing sugar or ground almonds, knead the dough a little and roll it out with a rolling pin, also sprinkled with a little powdered sugar. Cut the caissons with the help of a cookie cutter, knead the cuts again, stretch and make more homemade caissons. We are putting each caisson on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
- To make the icing, we will mix the egg white together with the icing sugar.
- With a small spatula, we put a little glaze on the surface of each caisson. We let the French sweets rest for about 10 minutes while we preheat the oven to 150 ºC. When the oven is hot, turn it off and put the tray in the oven. Remove 5 minutes later, let the caisson cool for 5 minutes and transfer them to a wire rack to finish cooling. They will be ready to consume.
- Making homemade caissons d’Aixis very easy and the result is fantastic. You can serve them during tea time, accompanied by other homemade pasta, or for breakfast.
