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The Thrill of the Tuile

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How many ways can you pronounce the word “tuile”? As it turns out, many ways. Fortunately, the pronunciation is about all I struggled with when it comes to the January 2009 Daring Bakers‘ challenge.

This month’s challenge is brought to us by Karen of Bake My Day and Zorra of 1x umruehren bitte aka Kochtopf. They have chosen Tuiles from The Chocolate Book by Angélique Schmeink and Nougatine and Chocolate Tuiles from Michel Roux.

Apparently, the word tuiles means tile in French and the cookies are named tuiles because after they’re shaped, they resemble a type of tile used in France.

I’d never made tuiles before but I have always found myself enchanted by both the shape of the cookie and the apparent lightness of the cookie. Karen and Zorra offered two sweet variations: one that makes a smooth cookie and one that makes a lacy cookie. They also provided a savoury variation.

I chose to make the sweet variation only and I flavoured mine with vanilla and lemon. The second part of the challenge was to shape the tuiles and combine them with something light and airy.

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As I pulled my tuiles out of the oven, I rolled them around a spoon handle and then made a filling of whipped cream and dulce de leche. Some of my tuiles were a bit thick so as I rolled them, they cracked slightly. But once filled and stacked on a pretty plate, you couldn’t really notice any of the cracks.

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These were delicious. I have to admit that I enjoyed them by sucking out the filling first and then munching the remaining tuile.

Thanks so much to Zorra and Karen for starting 2009 in such a light and pretty way!

Ciao!

To see a copy of the challenge recipes, please read Karen’s post and Zorra’s post.

60 Comments


01/29/09 at 1:24 am

Very well done! Your Tuiles look fantastic! Nice flavoring and filling…

Cheers,

Rosa


01/29/09 at 2:30 am

Those look lovely and I love lemon and vanilla! Well done, as usual ;)


01/29/09 at 3:04 am

they look great and so delicious !


01/29/09 at 3:15 am

Of course nodoby notices the cracks! They look like cute cannoli! And God know how much I love dulce de leche!


01/29/09 at 3:25 am

Oh my..bring it on! I have three -or rather four- grabbers available should you want to ditch the cracked ones. They are of the male variety, they go for flavour/quantity hehe


01/29/09 at 3:47 am

Your tuilles look thrilling indeed! I love how you filled them and I wish I had one now! You’d be pleased that the kids feature VERY actively in my post this month too!! :)


01/29/09 at 4:10 am

suck and munch - a perfect technique for these tuiles. i used lemon too!


01/29/09 at 5:26 am

i can’t believe you filled them with cream and dulce de leche- perfecto!


01/29/09 at 5:38 am

Yum, they rolled beautifully!


01/29/09 at 6:21 am

Those look sooooo tasty!


01/29/09 at 6:22 am

I love them! they look great!


01/29/09 at 7:09 am

I love your title.

And your cannoli, I just love those, they look so yummy. I have been wanting to make cannoli like this. I much prefer it over the deep fried variation.


01/29/09 at 7:18 am

YUm, they look delicious. Great job as always.


01/29/09 at 7:22 am

A plate of delicate perfection.You make it seem so effortless. Great job.


01/29/09 at 7:26 am

Gorgeous - I would totally eat the cream first, too!


01/29/09 at 7:52 am

HOLY FABULOUSNESS!!

lynn carbone

01/29/09 at 8:16 am

They look delish… How did you make the filling with the. Lynn


01/29/09 at 8:22 am

They look gorgous! I can’t wait to make mine today!


01/29/09 at 8:45 am

wow, these are so pretty! vanilla and lemon sounds like a lovely flavor combination


01/29/09 at 9:00 am

They look beautiful as usual. I would have loved to do this shape, but can you believe that none of my spoons have round handles? I think I need to go kitchen shopping (what a shame!).


01/29/09 at 9:18 am

Your tuiles looked so beautiful stacked up! Your method of eating them sounds like a good idea!


01/29/09 at 9:34 am

Those tuiles look awfully light and delicious. Oooooooh! For a first attempt, you totally owned it, hon!!


01/29/09 at 9:39 am

They do look light and pretty! I’ve been such a negligent DBer…I hope I can let you know when I’m ready to do the challenges again!


01/29/09 at 9:43 am

Perfect! Bravo! I may have to make the sweet ones this weekend! They look awesome.


01/29/09 at 10:12 am

Anche tu hai fatto dei cannoli. Sono molto carini e, naturlamente, buonissimi.


01/29/09 at 11:03 am

A mountain of lovely tuiles! I love your choice of filling too…decadent yet light. Beautiful!


01/29/09 at 11:15 am

They look wonderful! I made mine too small to stuff but next time I’ll make them like yours. A nice east elegant dessert!


01/29/09 at 11:47 am

Well done Ivonne! Glad to see the pC is behaving again!


01/29/09 at 12:09 pm

Lovely. I agree with you pronouncing the word “tuile” was the most difficult part of this challenge. Still, I liked making them. I think I would like what you did with yours way more than what I did with mine. Great job. I am impressed, once again.


01/29/09 at 12:15 pm

Wow, your tuiles are gorgeous!!


01/29/09 at 12:25 pm

I had an easier time pronouncing the word ‘tuile’ than making them!
Your tuiles look heavenly! Would love to eat one..or two.
Wonderful photos!


01/29/09 at 1:49 pm

I had a problem with cracking when i was rolling with some of mine, too. but of course they still look lovely, and i’m sure they tasted wonderful!


01/29/09 at 1:58 pm

The first thing I thought when I saw your photo was of slurping the cream right out of the cookie! Yum. Lovely for sure!


01/29/09 at 2:34 pm

WOW nice presentation. I would like to suck the life out of these tuiles :) they look great and yummy. Do this remain crisp or you just fill them and serve them. Caue last time I made tuiles and without filling they softened after a short period of time.


01/29/09 at 5:16 pm

I would have totally sucked out the filling!!!


01/29/09 at 5:46 pm

Mmm, your tuiles look beautiful! Love the cream filling too =D!


01/29/09 at 5:53 pm

Great job on your tuiles! They look fabulous!


01/29/09 at 6:09 pm

You did a beautiful job on your tuiles. The cream filling looks scrumptious.

Natalie @ Gluten A Go Go


01/29/09 at 7:40 pm

Very very nice!!!

Missed ya at the bakeoff. Glad you are back in biz with the computer!

Hugs
J


01/30/09 at 7:29 am

Just beautiful…love the ease with which you made them & then ate them…crunching away to glory! YUM!!


01/30/09 at 8:36 am

wow! absolutely yummy and sinful :)


01/30/09 at 9:50 am

These look beautiful! That filling looks delicious!


01/30/09 at 10:24 am

Breakfast? :-)
Looks good to me!


01/30/09 at 12:55 pm

I want one of them!!! Fantastic!!1

Ana


01/30/09 at 2:40 pm

Very pretty! They remind me a bit of some cream filled florentines I made over the holidays that I wish I had a bit of right now. Of course I failed in the “bending” of mine. Oh well — they tasted great!


01/30/09 at 9:27 pm

Great tuiles! I love the dulce de leche, very creative! :)


01/31/09 at 6:24 am

Those are beautiful tuiles Ivonne!


02/1/09 at 9:43 am

Beautiful! And I love the filling idea.


02/1/09 at 6:56 pm

Oooh, they look delicious! I would eat them just like you!


02/3/09 at 4:55 am

These look delish!


02/3/09 at 9:47 am

Beautiful as always! I didn’t know it was “twill” either until I heard Alton Brown say it not long ago. Oh, that Alton. Be still my heart.

Vanessa

02/3/09 at 3:16 pm

Do you this idea would work with pizzelles? I’d love to buy a pizzelle-maker but would have an easier time justifying it if I could make more than just waffley-looking flat cookies with it.


02/4/09 at 2:14 am

Love your filling with the dulce de leche, so yummy!


02/4/09 at 11:16 am

I love the addition of lemon to your tuiles. And the filling? Wow!


02/4/09 at 12:57 pm

These look really yummy. We, Italians take our hot off the iron pizzeles and roll them as well. I like to make a stiff pistachio pudding and fill the rolled pizzeles. My clients love them with sweetend whipped cream and some warmed hot fudge sauce drizzled over the top.

Buon appetito,

Carmela


02/8/09 at 2:21 pm

These were just terrific fun. Yours are wonderful. ;) love your telling about how you ate them.


02/10/09 at 1:04 am

The dulce de leche filling sounds wonderful. It’s one of my favorite flavor profiles.


02/10/09 at 10:17 pm

Something light? What is you had filled them with air? lol


02/26/09 at 9:54 am

These look fantastic, and I bet they tasted amazing! Dulce de Leche whipped cream sounds delicious

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