March 19, 2010

Valentine Tarts by Thierry Phelipot

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By Megan Valentine

Story Published: Jul 12, 2007 at 9:58 AM EDT

Story Updated: Jul 12, 2007 at 9:58 AM EDT

Ingredients

Cookie Dough:
1 pound flour
½ lb sugar
4 eggs
¼ butter

Almond Filling:
½ pound almond paste (or marzipan)
¼ pound butter
4 oz sugar
3 eggs

Topping:
Whipped cream
Strawberries (halved lengthwise)
Peach jam

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

For cookie dough:
Cream the sugar and butter in one bowl. Add flour and eggs and mix until smooth.

For Almond filling:
In a separate bowl, cream together sugar, butter and marzipan. Add eggs, and mix until thoroughly combined and creamy.

Roll out dough until 1/8” thick. Use heart shaped cookie cutter. Place cookies on cookie sheet. With pastry bag, pipe almond glaze filling around edge of cookie. Bake in 350 degree oven for 15 minutes.

Remove cookies from oven, allow to cool. Pipe whipped cream onto center of heart shaped cookie. Arrange three strawberry halves on each cookie and glaze strawberry with peach jam.

Recipe courtesy: Thierry Phelipot, Thierry’s French Bakery (formerly De Bakkerij)

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