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There's a certain conception that most people have of petit fours. Most of us think the treats have to be small square or round cakes with a poured fondant icing and a piped decoration on top. There's much more to it than that. Petit four translates from French as 'small oven,' which refers to the ovens after the large items had been baked. The heat in the oven was a lot lower after the bread or large cakes (in the case of the nobility) came out, so things like smaller cakes and cookies that needed lower temperatures could then be baked.
In a strict sense, a petit four can be any small cookie, cake, creme puffs or tartlettes. Even sugar coated nuts and fruits could be considered petit four, technically speaking. According to Larousse Gastronomique, petit fours became popular during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King himself.
When we work on the small desserts for teas or buffets in my pastry kitchen, we use almond cake to make the petit four glacés. It's a very dense almond cake that we then layer with different flavors of marmalade, top with marzipan (only on the top layer), and then pour fondant over in a very thin layer (after cutting the cake into small squares of course). They're so rich it's a good thing we cut them in such bite-sized pieces.
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8-20-2008 @12:02PM Alex said... Is the plural not 'petits fours'? And would it not be 'petit four glacé' and 'petits fours glacés'?
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8-20-2008 @12:38PM Tammy Green (Zesmerelda) said... You need to credit my photography. Please follow the creative commons license on the photo. Thank you.
The photo:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zesmerelda/1537843939/
The license:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en
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8-20-2008 @8:24PM Shayna Glick said... Zesmerelda:
Sorry about that. I've never used an image without a credit, and that was an unfortunate oversight on my part. But it's done now.
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8-21-2008 @6:06PM chyna106 said... Quality over quantity and portion control. Great!
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8-21-2008 @6:10PM Monkey said... Alex, you're absolutely correct, even though Shayna appears to have completely ignored your post.
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