Pailleté Feuilletine – Crêpes Dentelles (lacy crêpes)

By efriend

Pailleté (or Paillets) feuilletine are broken up pieces of dried caramelized crêpes dentelles (lacy crêpes). They are more like a tuile or crunchy wafers. These incredibly thin layers of sweet are rolled up into a cigar shape sometimes large enough for a filling.

Ingredients

• 60 grams melted butter
• 100 grams sugar
• 35 grams (1) egg white
• 60 grams flour
• 40 ml of water (3 tablespoons)

Details

Servings 20
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 40mins
Adapted from chefrachida.com

Preparation

Step 1

Instructions
Preheat the oven to 400 ºF (200 ºC) .
Melt the butter completely in a mixing bowl.
Add the sugar to the hot melted butter. Stir until the sugar has dissolved , it should not be grainy.
Wait until the mixture is cool, then whisk in egg white.
Sift in the flour.
Use a whisk to mix into a paste.
Pour in half of the water and mix well. Then pour slowly in the rest of the water if the batter is still too thick. You don’t have to use all the water.
Chill the batter for at least an hour to allow it to thicken further. You can keep the batter in the fridge up to 3 days.
Lay the stencil template on the silicone liner. Spread on the batter evenly with the spatula. The template (I’m using) thickness is 1/16″ ( = 1.5 mm). You can spread the batter with a long spatula without a template, try to get the thickness less than 1/16″ ( = 1.5 mm)
You can almost see through to the mesh of the silpat. Don’t spread too many shapes on one tray. When the time comes to rolling them in to Crepes Dentelle shapes, you have only few seconds to do so before it’s too rigid. About two spreads per tray would be perfect.
Place the silicone liner on the baking sheet.
Insert this into the middle of the pre-heated oven and bake for 5 to 8 minutes.
In the meantime, spread the next batch on another silicone liner.
They are done when there are completely brown. It takes no time to burn them.
If making Paillets Feuilletine, then crush with your fingers.
If making tuiles, immediately start rolling them into a cylindrical shape, but they are hot and you’ll probably burn your fingers a lot.
You can fill them with any cream or just eat them with your coffee or tea. Make sure you only fill them with the cream few minutes before serving.

Instructions