Delicious Almond Cream Filling (Crème d'Amande)

Name: Delicious Almond Cream Filling (Crème d'Amande)
Yield: 1 serving
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 140 grams Butter (unsalted if possible); 50 to 70 grams Powdered sugar (or other kind of sugar); 140 grams Almond flour; 2 Eggs; 1 tbsp A. Rum (optional); 1 A. Almond essence (if you have some)

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This is a standard crème d'amande. I copied the textbook recipe from a friend who learned it at the Tsuji Pastry School (a famous cooking school) about 10 years ago.
I adapted the recipe to be not so sweet, to suit my taste.

*If you are going to bake this in a tart or bread, mix it in steps 3 to 5 trying not to incorporate much air.
*On the other hand, when you want it to be very fluffy and light, whip it to incorporate lots of air.
*This can be stored in the freezer.
*While it probably won't give you food poisoning, it's not a cream that you should eat raw, so please cook it before consuming. Recipe by *ai*

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Ingredients

1 serving

140 gramsButter (unsalted if possible)
50to 70 grams Powdered sugar (or other kind of sugar)
140 gramsAlmond flour
2Eggs
1 tbspA. Rum (optional)
1A. Almond essence (if you have some)

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Steps

1

Beat the eggs, and heat gently in a bowl suspended over lukewarm water (that's a bit cooler than a hot bath). This is to prevent the egg from separating later. ^^
2

Sift the almond powder- a fine mesh sieve is fine. Sift the powdered sugar separately, too.
3

Leave out the butter to come to room temperature, or warm it up in a microwave. Beat with a whisk until creamy.
4

Add the sifted powdered sugar to the creamed butter, and cream it some more.
5

Add the beaten and warmed egg from Step 1 to the creamed sugar and butter from Step 4, little by little, mixing well. *Add it little by little to prevent it from separating.
6

Add the almond flour to the mixture and mix. There's no need to fold it in carefully or anything.
7

Add any of the A. ingredients to taste, and the almond cream is done.
8

The usual way to use this cream is to fill a tart made with pate sucrée (sweet shortcrust pastry) and to bake it. (The photo shows an almond cheese tart.)
9

For a 21cm diameter tart, bake at 180°C for 40 to 50 minutes. An 8cm diameter tart takes about 20 to 25 minutes.
10

For this version, I baked it with some well drained canned peaches on top. Try citrus fruit or any other fruit on top too.
11

This is a tart with bananas and walnuts in the cream. When it's sliced it looks like this. It has a wonderful almond fragrance and is very moist.
12

This is a "stick cake" made by spreading 2-3 cm of the cream on top of cookie dough before baking.
13

Try rolling up bread dough with this cream- delicious! You can use it in many ways. Please enjoy it in different variations.
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This is a tart filled with this cream -"Florentine Amandine". It includes the directions for making the "stick cake" in step 12 too.
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is a popular cheese version of this almond cream. It's delicious too, so please give it a try.