Cornes de Gazelle (Gazelle Horns)

Prepare

1. 🥄Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C).
2. 🔥Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Steps

1. 🔥Spread almonds over the baking sheet.

Prepare

1. 🧂Bake in the preheated oven until almonds are fragrant and roasted, 20 to 25 minutes.
2. 🍳Prepare pastry dough while almonds are roasting.
3. 🫇Combine flour, 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon butter, and salt in a bowl and rub together until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.

Steps

1. 🍳Add egg, oil, and 1 1/2 tablespoons orange blossom water; knead everything into a smooth pastry dough.
2. 🫇Add a little water, 1 teaspoon at a time, if dough is too dry.
3. 🍽️Shape pastry dough into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, and set aside for 30 minutes.
4. 🌿Remove almonds from oven and cool slightly, about 5 minutes.
5. ✨Place almonds in the bowl of a food processor; process until finely and evenly ground.

Prepare

1. 🫇Add 3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar, cinnamon, egg, and 1 tablespoon orange blossom water in that order to the food processor, pulsing after each addition until mixture is evenly combined and resembles a paste.

Steps

1. 🍽️Remove small walnut-sized portions of filling with greased hands.
2. 🌿Roll them into small logs with thin ends.
3. ✨Set aside.

Prepare

1. 🌿Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

Steps

1. ✨Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. 🥄Roll out half of the pastry dough on a lightly floured surface until very thin.
3. 🔥Place one of the almond paste logs on the edge of the pastry, fold pastry over the filling, covering it completely, and seal the edges.
4. 🧂Mold with your fingers into a crescent shape.

Prepare

1. 🥄Using a pastry cutter, cut around the crescent, and transfer to the prepared baking sheet.

Steps

1. 🔥Repeat with remaining dough and filling.

Prepare

1. 🧂Bake in the preheated oven until gazelle horns are lightly golden and baked through, about 20 minutes.

Steps

1. 🍳They should not get too dark.
2. 🫇Let cool slightly, about 3 minutes.
3. 🍽️Heat honey in a small saucepan over low-medium heat.
4. 🌿Remove from heat and stir in 1 tablespoon orange blossom water.

Serve

1. 🫇Dip gazelle horns into the honey and place on a serving plate.

Steps

1. 🍽️Sprinkle with crushed pistachios.