Well, here it goes:
First, the lovely TM
mock puff pastry. I used 200 g butter, cut in small pieces and
frozen, 200 g all-purpose flour, 3/4 tsp salt and 90 ml
very cold water (or very cold white wine).
Put all into TM bowl and process 20 seconds at speed 6. Wrap in clingfilm and put in fridge for 20 minutes, then roll into a rectangular shape on floured table. Fold in 3 like an envelope, repeat roll and fold (total of 4 times), trying not to warm dough with hands. Rewrap in clingfilm and put in fridge for at least another 20 minutes. Here
http://www.forumbimby.com/forum/index.php?topic=2749.0 in the Portuguese TM forum you can see the step-by-step pictures I didn't take.
In the meantime, make
filling (I adapted mine from the French blog ôdélices
http://www.odelices.com/recette/galette-des-rois-a-la-frangipane-r166/, for which you'll need:
170 g skinned almonds
150 g sugar
2 eggs
50 g soft butter (room temp.)
1 Tbsp plain flour
1 tsp almond extract
1 Tbsp rum
2 tsp orange flower water (Middle Eastern shops)
2 Tbsp apricot jam
1 egg yolk to "varnish" the top surface
1 small porcelain figurine to hide in filling (a dry bean was used in the past)
1 gold crown (ah, btw, mine comes from here
http://www.mapetitesouris.com/images-creation-la-petite-souris/couronne-doree.pdf)
Put almonds and sugar into bowl, process 30 seconds on speed 6. Add remaining ingredients, put in the "butterfly" and process for 15 seconds on speed 4. Done!
Cover bottom of 26cm pie pan with baking paper. Roll half of cold dough into a circle slightly larger than baking pan. Cover bottom and sides of pan with it. Spread a little jam on bottom of dough (this is to avoid dampness seeping into dough and making it too damp). Now, on top of this, put in the filling (including the "surprse figurine" which I bought here
http://www.faboland.com/catalo.htm) and cover with the top layer of puff pastry pressing edges together to seal. Varnish with egg yolk and if desired, draw simple decoration with tines of fork.
Oven at 200ºC for 25-30 minutes till golden-coloured.
Now off to be, it's 1.06 (am) here!
