Almond Cream

How to make almond cream filling also known as the frangipane recipe. This delicious, creamy, almond-rich filling is made with only 4 ingredients and is ready in 10 minutes, perfect for filling tarts, cakes, pastries and croissants.

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Frangipane filling

The almond cream filling also called "creme d’amande" is a very well-known recipe used in French pastry and in the world for filling pastries, tart shell such as in fruit tarts like apple tart or pear tart or in more traditional desserts such as the French galette des rois (king cake).

Also this French almond cream is often incorrectly called frangipane which is rather a filling made of two preparations, this recipe of almond cream is combined with pastry cream.

But the almond cream is more of an easy version of the frangipane filling because this recipe calls for only 4 main ingredients and requires only 10 minutes of preparation time.

This is why it is loved around the world for its rich almond flavor that goes perfectly with almost anything, fresh fruit, and chocolate, and is also used to make almond croissants.

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Ingredients and substitutions

What we like about this cream is that it is really one of the simplest preparations to make, simply mix all the ingredients together.

• Butter: Use unsalted butter with a well-softened texture.
• Almond: blanched almonds or whole almonds, use ground almonds instead of almond flour, which you can replace with other nut flour such as ground hazelnuts.
• Sugar: granulated or powdered sugar.
• Eggs: raw eggs at room temperature, it is possible to make it without eggs or to use only the egg whites.
• Vanilla and salt: optional pure vanilla extract which can be replaced by pure almond extract to reinforce the almond aroma and a pinch of salt to bring out all the flavors.

Ratio: A simple ratio to remember = 1 : 1 : 1 (Example, for 50 g almond meal + 50 g butter + 50 g sugar + 50 g egg (about 1 egg))

Tip: Easily flavor your cream with cocoa powder or melted chocolate, orange blossom, bitter almond flavor, homemade chocolate chips or hazelnut praline paste.

How to make an Almond cream recipe

1. Place softened butter pieces with granulated sugar in a medium bowl.
2. Mix with an electric mixer on medium speed for 2 minutes until creamy.
3. Add eggs and vanilla or almond flavoring and mix again to incorporate.
4. Add the almond meal and salt and mix again with the hand mixer to obtain a homogeneous and airy almond cream.
5. Use almond cream immediately as a tart filling or croissant filling or store it in the refrigerator.

Tip: Use an electric mixer to incorporate air and achieve a lighter, more fluffy almond cream.

Storage and freezing

Room temperature: It can only be kept in the fridge as it contains eggs which makes it a fragile cream. Covered with a plastic wrap or in a airtight container, you can keep it up to 2 days in the refrigerator.

In the freezer: In a conservation box you can keep it up to 3 months in the freezer. Let it slowly recover in the fridge.

Frequently asked questions

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Recipes with almond cream

• French strawberry tart
• Rhubarb almond tart
• Pear almond galette
• Chocolate galette des rois
• Chocolate pear galette des rois
• Apple french galette des rois
• Almond Pithivier
• Frangipane pear tart

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