Aboukir is a sponge cake. It’s baked in a Charlotte Mould, sliced into layers, then reassembled with chestnut cream between each layer. The cake is then glazed with a coffee-flavoured fondant (a thick sugar paste) and garnished with pistachios. Bombe Aboukir (Bombe Glacée) A bombe mould pan is lined with pistachio ice cream then filled…
Aboukir
Aboukir Almonds
Aboukir almonds are a candy, a type of “petit-four.” To make Aboukir almonds, whole almonds are blanched, then roasted, and set aside. Almond paste is then coloured green or pink, and pressed into a ball or an oval. A hole is pressed into the top of each almond paste ball, and one of the roasted…