Nougatine

For serves 8:

• 80g hazelnuts
• 80g almonds
• 220g caster sugar
• baking parchment
• rolling pin

A delicious candy to taste and to offer.

1. Pre-heat oven to 338F.
2. Grill the fruits in a cooking pan. Remove the skin from the hazelnuts. Leave to cool, then place in a cloth, and crush them with the rolling pin. Check and set aside.
3. Prepare a sheet of baking parchment of 30X50cm.
4. Using a sauce pan of 15cm, put the sugar on medium fire until it become golden. As soon as the caramel is golden, throw in the almonds ans hazelnuts, and mix gently with a spatula. Immediately pour onto the sheet of baking parchment, fold the sheet allowing nougatine to be between the two sheets , and roll the dough to 5mm thick, using the rolling pin. The nougatine gets hard when it is cold.
5. Remove the top sheet, and cut the nougatine into strips. Then wrap around a small roll or pen. If you want to soften the dough, you can easily heat it inside the oven at 330°F.
6. if you don't want to make a decoration, just let cool and break into pieces to taste like candy.

Bon appétit !

Look at nougatine glacé recipe.