Tuesdays with Dorie BWJ: Miniature Florentine Squares and Glazed Mini-Rounds

August 4, 2015 at 7:32 pm | Posted in BWJ, cakes & tortes, groups, layer cakes, petit fours, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 5 Comments
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I make a lot of petits fours at work, but it’s not often that you’ll see something like Flo Braker’s Miniature Florentine Squares or Glazed Mini-Rounds making an appearance at my house. I don’t usually get that old-fashioned fancy here. If I serve up anything post-dessert, it’s typically just a healthy-sized complaint about having to do all the dishes myself.

The Florentine Squares and the Glazed Mini-Rounds are two different recipes in the book, but they are both made the very same way, just cut and decorated a little differently. They are both ladyfinger genoise layers soaked in sweet wine syrup, sandwiched with jam (I used blackcurrant), glazed with white chocolate ganache and decorated with designs of melted dark chocolate. I made one cake and cut and decorated some of each style.

They weren’t so hard to make (I watched the video first, and got some tips on chilling the cake before cutting to prevent too much crumbage) and they were pretty fun to decorate. It’s so hot in my kitchen that my dark chocolate designs got a little droopy as the petits fours sat for their photo shoot. I thought they were still charming though. These were tasty little bite-sized treats, but they were quite sweet. They would have been good with a strong cup of coffee.

For the recipe, see Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan (and here’s a video). Don’t forget to check out the rest of the TWD Blogroll!

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..and I’m hungry

Comment by ismblogger— August 6, 2015 #

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There is something so pleasingly retro and delicious about petit fours – I have a complete soft spot for them and these look wonderful!

Comment by saffronandhoney— August 7, 2015 #

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How pretty are these!

Comment by Cakelaw— August 9, 2015 #

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they look so petite 🙂

Comment by Trupti Kharche— August 14, 2015 #

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Those look great!!! You make petit fours at work? How cool!!

Comment by Karen @ Karen's Kitchen Stories— August 15, 2015 #

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