David Lebovitz’s Croissants aux Amandes

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Cookbook writer David Lebovitz has tested this look astatine location successful France, and portion connected publication circuit successful the States. He has utilized croissants from Paris’s champion pastry shops and the ones from Costco. He has utilized caller and frozen. His “general feeling is the messier, the better.”

His advice: Don't beryllium stingy erstwhile applying the frangipane and the syrup. Double the magnitude of each erstwhile you are dealing with ample croissants. You besides person his support to shove cocoa chips, tiny pieces of banana oregon dried sour cherries successful with the almond paste.

You tin besides bushed the frangipane substance by hand.

The almond-filled croissants are champion served the aforesaid time they are made, either lukewarm oregon astatine country temperature, but they tin beryllium kept successful an airtight instrumentality overnight. Leftover frangipane tin beryllium utilized to enactment effect tarts, and you tin marque it with hazelnuts (skip the almond extract, and effort Frangelico successful the syrup) oregon pistachios. The frangipane tin beryllium refrigerated successful an airtight instrumentality for up to 1 week, oregon frozen for up to 2 weeks.

From cookbook writer David Lebovitz.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 6)

• Calories

  330

• Fat

  20 g

• Saturated Fat

  8 g

• Carbohydrates

  33 g

• Sodium

  180 mg

• Cholesterol

  70 mg

• Protein

  6 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From cookbook writer David Lebovitz.

Tested by Miriam Albert.

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