Ptifuras - what is it? Recipes

Today we will tell you how to cook miniature cakes - poultry. What is it like to prepare and decorate an unusual dessert, you will learn from our article. Simple recipes, which you can see below, will help you create an original treat for the festive table.

Ptifuras - what is it?

Petit fours is the French name of a small oven. It was there that the famous confectioner La Varenna (17th century) offered to bake small but elegant desserts. In our time, cakes are made from sand or biscuit dough, and then decorate with cream or glaze. They are served during lunch, cocktail or at official receptions. Ptyfuras, whose recipes you read below, can be easily prepared at home.

Coffee pots

These small cakes will look great on a cocktail party, cocktail party or bachelorette party. Remember that the weight of one birdie should not exceed 30 grams. This is the canon. However, even such a small dessert should be appetizing and beautiful.

Ingredients for the dough:

• Flour - 300 grams.
• Butter - 200 grams.
• Egg yolks - three pieces.
• Baking powder - two teaspoons.
• Sugar vanilla - two teaspoons.
• Sugar white - 100 grams.

Cream products:

• 120 grams of sugar.
• Two teaspoons of instant coffee.
• 250 grams of butter.

Recipe:

• Fill the coffee with three tablespoons of boiling water and wait until it cools.
• Sift the flour and combine it with a baking powder.
• Whisk the yolks with sugar, add flour and vanilla sugar to them. Thoroughly mix everything.
• Cut chilled butter in small pieces, then add them to the rest of the products and knead the dough with your hands. Finished product in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• Turn on the oven and roll the dough thinly. Using forms, cut out different figures from it.
• Lay the workpieces on a baking sheet covered with parchment, and then bake them until ready.
• Next, prepare the cream. To do this, beat the butter with sugar and vanilla, and then add coffee to them.
• Piece of the pastry cream with cream, and put the second part on top of them and press.

Using a pastry bag, apply the cream on the surface of the cake.

Chocolate birds

The recipe with the photo, placed below, will help the hostess to diversify the sweet menu and to please native or guests with miniature, but from this no less tasty confectionery. The most interesting is that you can decorate a delicacy at your own discretion, which means that every time you can think of something new, there would be a fantasy. We suggest you try to bake chocolate birdies. What is it - just miniature pechenyushki or something more original?

There are many options for making this dessert. For example, they include small copies of traditional cakes (duchess, eclair, tartlets). In addition, they can look like a dry biscuit, decorated with chocolate or any cream. Try our version of the bird fishes, prepared from biscuit, filling and glaze.

Here is the list of required products:

• 600 grams of dark chocolate.
• 175 grams of sugar.
• 100 ml of rum.

For chocolate glaze:

• 900 g nougat (it can easily be replaced with chocolate paste);
• 90 g of starch.

For chocolate filling you will need:

• 1.5 liters of cream (33% fat content);
• 100 grams of apricot jam;
• black chocolate.

For biscuit:

• 150 grams of marzipan;
• 150 grams of butter;
• 100 grams of flour;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• Seven yolks;
• powdered sugar;
• Three vanilla sticks;
• 50 grams of butter.

Biscuit Recipe

• Separate the proteins from the yolks and put them in the refrigerator.
• Whip marzipan with butter.
• Gradually put the yolks into the mixture. Add a spoonful of water and 75 grams of sugar to the dough.
• Separately whisk 100 grams of sugar and chilled proteins. Combine them with starch and flour.
• Mix the products, and then pour the dough onto a baking sheet covered with parchment.

So you need to bake three more layers. Each of them is prepared for about five minutes.

Recipe for syrup

• Mix sugar with water.
• Put the liquid on the stove and bring it to a boil.
• Cook the syrup no more than five minutes.

In the cooled liquid, add rum.

The recipe for the filling

• Mix the powdered sugar with cream in a suitable saucepan, and then heat the mixture on fire. Add the vanilla (you need to remove it when the liquid boils).
• Put the chocolate and flour in the dishes. Cook the filling for another ten minutes.
• Then the mixture must be cooled and combined with the yolks.

Remove the cream in the refrigerator for 12 hours.

The recipe for birds

• Lubricate one layer of biscuit cream.
• The second and third layer soak with syrup, and then grease with cream.
• Apply the jam on the last layer.
• Fold the blanks against each other, and then put them in the refrigerator for 12 hours.

When the specified time has passed, cut the biscuit into small pieces. Prepare chocolate icing and cover it with bird feces.

Almond birds

Ptifuras - what is it? As we have already said, these are small cakes decorated with cream or glaze. They are conventionally divided into several types. So, some must be consumed on the day of preparation, while others can be stored for a long time in a refrigerator or a cardboard box. Try to prepare a treat according to our recipe and surprise the guests with original dessert.

Ingredients:

• powdered sugar;
• 75 grams of almonds;
• Four proteins;
• 40 grams of sugar;
• 35 grams of flour.

Cooking process:

• Crush the almonds and sift it through the sieve together with the sugar powder.
• Whip the proteins into the foam, gradually adding sugar to them.
• Combine the prepared foods with flour, and then transfer the dough into a pastry bag with a wide nozzle.
• Turn on the oven and cover the baking sheet with parchment.
• Put the dough in the form of circles and sticks. Then bake the feces until ready (about 10 minutes).

Lubricate part of the blanks with chocolate cream, and some with fruit or berry jam. Put the cookies on top of each other and press.

Conclusion

The ptifuras, photos of which you saw on this page, can be easily prepared at home. Do not forget that small desserts need to be beautifully decorated and served with hot or soft drinks.