Tuile Cookies: A Step-by-Step Recipe with Photos for Making at Home

Thin French tuile cookies are a perfect treat with tea or coffee. Using this simple, classic step-by-step recipe, even a novice cook can easily delight friends with these delicious and unusual pastries.

Tuile Cookies: A Classic Step-by-Step Recipe

Nutritional value per serving

340 kcal

Proteins: 10 g
Fats: 22 g
Carbohydrates: 39 g

*Nutritional value is calculated per 100g of ingredients

Total time: 20 min
Time in the kitchen: 20 min
Complexity:

It's easy and straightforward to prepare, but it does require some experience. Not everyone can do it right the first time.
Number of servings: 20

The word “Tuile” itself (pronounced correctly as “tyuil”, although in Russian it is more often written with the letter “u” – tuil) is translated from French as “tile”.

The dish's unusual name comes from the bakery that first offered this type of cookie to its customers. However, there's another theory behind the name: the thin, crisp cookies are indeed shaped like the tiles that were once used to cover roofs in France.

Tuile cookies are sweet, thin, almond-flavored cookies that snap when bitten into with a distinctive, crisp sound. The classic French recipe calls for garnishing the cookies with almond flakes, but many home-brewers add almond flour to the dough and sprinkle the finished cookies with sesame seeds or even pumpkin seeds.

Today we'll tell you how to make a simple classic recipe at home and make almond-flavored Tuile cookies.

French Tuile cookies

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Ingredients

Servings

Powdered sugar

120 G
Butter

80 G
Egg white

2 pcs
Flour

70 G
Almond petals

50 G
Vanilla extract

as desired
Salt

1 pinch

Preparation

Step 1

We begin preparing the dough by sifting the powdered sugar through a sieve. This is an important step to remove any small lumps that form during storage.

Step 2

Next, separate 2 egg whites, making sure not to include even the slightest amount of yolk, add a pinch of salt and beat with a mixer until a “beer” foam forms.

Step 3

Gradually add sifted powdered sugar into the egg mixture, continuing to beat vigorously with a mixer until a thick, stable foam forms.

Step 4

Add vanilla extract or vanilla sugar.

Step 5

Add pre-sifted wheat flour to the protein mixture.

If desired, you can replace 30 grams of wheat flour with almond flour to achieve a more pronounced almond flavor.

Step 6

Add melted butter to the dough and beat a little more with a mixer until smooth.

Step 7

As a result, you should get a fairly liquid dough like the one in the photo, with a consistency similar to pancake batter.

Step 8

Rub baking paper with butter.

Step 9

Place 1 teaspoon of dough and use a spoon to form a circle of the desired diameter, simply spreading the dough onto the paper in a circular motion.

Step 10

Place almonds on top (or other nut decorations if desired).

Step 11

Bake in the oven on the “top + bottom without convection” mode for approximately 5-6 minutes at 160℃, until the edge is golden brown, as in the photo.

Step 12

While still hot, carefully remove the cookies from the baking sheet and place them on a rolling pin to give them a characteristic curve.

Step 13

Place the cookies on a plate and add some beautiful decoration if desired.

These cookies can be stored for quite a long time, even at room temperature, simply by storing them in a special airtight container. The key is to prevent them from becoming damp, otherwise they may lose their original crispness. This can be remedied by lightly drying the lost crispness of the Tuile in the oven.

We also suggest trying making delicious orange-flavored Tuile cookies at home, following the step-by-step instructions in this video: