Name: Almond Tonka Dessert
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 270 min
Ingredients: 550 ml milk; 100 g almonds (peeled or unpeeled); 1 tbsp tonka sugar; 3 tbsp maple syrup; 5 leaves gelatine or the corresponding amount of agar-agar; 2.5 dl cream or half fat cream

Almond Tonka Dessert

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Cooling Time 4 hrs

Total Time 4 hrs 30 mins

Course Dessert, sweet

Servings 6 people

Ingredients

550 ml milk
100 g almonds peeled or unpeeled
1 tbsp tonka sugar
3 tbsp maple syrup
5 leaves gelatine or the corresponding amount of agar-agar
2.5 dl cream or half fat cream

Instructions

Bring the milk and almonds to a boil, stirring, and continue to simmer on low heat for 20 minutes. Stir well from time to time
Strain into a bowl, squeeze the almonds well
Return the liquid to the pan
Soak gelatine leaves in cold water
Add sugar and maple syrup (and possibly agar agar if not using gelatin) and bring everything to a boil together.
Remove the pan from the heat, remove the gelatine leaves from the water, squeeze them well and add them to the mixture while stirring.
Pour everything through a sieve into a bowl.
Allow cooling to room temperature
Whip the cream until stiff, add to the mixture and pour into any 1 lt mold.
Leave to set in the refrigerator (about 4 hours).
Turn the mixture onto a plate and serve with any fruit sauce

Notes

You can bake cookies with the almond paste you have squeezed out.
Add sugar and an egg, form cookies by hand, and bake in the oven at 180 °C for about 8 minutes.

Almond Tonka Dessert