Almond Triangles From "Beat This!" Cookbook By Ann Hodgman Recipe
Servings: 1
Ingredients
- 2 c. Flour
- 2/3 c. Confectioner's sugar
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1 c. Unsalted butter, cut into 16 slices
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 c. Unsalted butter
- 1/2 c. Mild-tasting honey
- 1 1/4 c. Light brown sugar, packed
- 1/4 c. Sugar
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/4 c. Heavy cream
- 8 ounce Slivered almonds
- 8 ounce Unblanched whole almonds, coarsely minced
- 1 tsp Grated orange rind
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 F. CRUST (first 5 ingredients) Place the flour, confectioners' sugar and salt into the bowl of a food processor. Blend for a few seconds. (Keep your hand over the top of the feed tube so the sugar will not fly away.) Then scatter the butter pcs and vanilla on top of the flour mix. Process with on-and-off pulses till the mix begins to hold together. Divide the dough into 8 pcs and space them proportionately on an ungreased 10x15-inch baking pan. Dipping your fingertips in flour, pat out the dough till it covers the pan proportionately. Bake the crust in the bottom third of the oven for 15 min. Then take it out, but leave the oven on.
- Meanwhile, prepare the topping.
- TOPPING (last 9 ingredients) Place the butter, honey, sugars and salt in a heavy saucepan. Stirring constantly, heat over a medium-low heat till the butter melts and the mix is well combined. Raise the heat to medium and bring the mix to a boil. Boil, without stirring, for 1 minute. Take the saucepan off the heat and stir in the cream, all the almonds and orange rind. Pour this mix over the bottom crust and stick the pan back in the oven, still in the bottom third of the oven. Bake the triangles (of course, they're not triangles yet!) for 20 min at 350 F. Then turn up the heat to 375 F., transter the pan to the middle of the oven, and bake for another 15 to 20 min. The topping should be amber-colored and bubbling all over before you take it out. Cold the pan on a wire rack. When the topping is completely cold, use a sharp knife to cut it into 20 squares. Lift the squares out of the pan and place them on a cutting board before you cut them into 2 triangles each. Getting triangular bars out of a pan can be an ugly scene. Store in a tightly covered container.
- Makes 40 triangles.
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