How To Make Petit Fours

I'm going to show you today how to make petit fours. We're going to do coconut and maroons. So, I've got some egg white.

I've got some desiccated coconut and I've got some sugar, which I'm going to mix together, and I've got some toasted almonds which we're going to put on top. This is a very, very simple dish, so I put our coconut into the bowl. Now, while I'm talking to you now, I have the oven on already for five minutes pre-heating.

Put it on for about 160 from room to go straight in. So, I'm going to put a bit of egg white into the coconut and what it does, it binds it and keeps it all together. So, I'm just mixing my egg white into the coconut.

It's very important not too much otherwise, it'll be too sloppy. So, try enough to where it just binds it nicely and I'm happy with that. So, what I'm going to do now, I'll make some little balls out of that.

I'll now go on to a baking sheet in an oven, literally, for about ten minutes on about 180 and not going to take long at all. I've got some almonds that I want to pre-garnish on top and they'll toast up quite nicely and they'll hold their shape and they'll look really, really nice. So, I'm just going to shake my coconut maroons, and it's called a cornel.

We'll just shape them down. Spoon it up. Give it a nice little shape.

Transfer to my tray there and let that go through the oven. I've got my oven pre-heated and I reckon they're just going to brown off quite nicely for about five minutes. I'm going to come back to those in a minute.

So, coming back to my coconut maroons, lovely color! They smell absolutely fantastic. I'll just take these off. And that's how I make my petit fours.