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Twelfth Night Cake
  • For : 8 servings
  • Time : 1 hour
  • Difficulty : medium

For this recipe, you need :

  • 500 g puff pastry
  • 250 g frangipane cream
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 stone (optional)
  • 16° syrup (optional)

Technical Stages :

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1

Prepare all the ingredients.

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2

Roll out half of the puff pastry.

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3

Spread a 1 to 2 cm-thick (0,39 to 0,79 inch) layer of frangipane cream in its center, in a circular shape. ###

Glaze with egg yolk.

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4

If you want to add a stone, go for it now. Put the stone in the frangipane cream.

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5

After rolling out a second piece of puff pastry...

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6

...put it on the first shell. Press on the sides to make the two pastries stick together.

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7

Cut your galette in a circle.

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8

chiqueter the rim of your galette.

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9

Glaze with egg yolk.

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10

You can draw curves or lines with the back of a knife's blade.

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11

Bake in a warm oven at 180-200°C.

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12

The puff pastry starts to bake and rise.

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13

The surface also starts to get golden. The galette is baked when the bottom of the pastry is baked. To check it out, use a large spatula and lift the side of the galette. You can then see if the pastry is baked.

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14

The galette is now baked.

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15

You only have to take it out of the oven and let it cool on a rack. You can eat it cold or warm. I recommend to let it cool, it will taste even better.

Thank you for following this recipe !

The essentials

To make this recipe, some of these items will be required:

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