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For the dough: Sift the flour.
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Place the flour and salt in a large bowl.
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Mix.
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Rub the butter into the flour with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
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Next add approximately 1/2 of the egg yolk and the water.
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Mix well your hands.
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Try to work quickly.
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Wrap the dough and chill for 10 -15 minutes.
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Now take the dough and roll out into a 12 inch square that is about 1/8 inch thick, using a rolling pin.
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Cut it into round shapes (diameter 2 inches) using a pastry cutter or cookie cutter.
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Put the pastry rounds into greased moulds (use butter or coking spray) and make sure the dough goes up the sides as well.
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I used moulds that were about 1.5 inches across, and had ridged edges (kind of like a peanut butter cup wrapper).
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Then trim off the excess pastry that goes over the edges of the mould.
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Prick the base with a fork to prevent air bubbles.
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You should have 12 moulds.
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You can use scraps of the dough and cut out strips 1/8 inch width and 6 inch long.
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Fold each of the strips in half and twist strips together.
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You are basically making a spiral shaped decoration to place on top of the meringue.
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Place the decorations on the baking sheet as well.
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Bake about 10 minutes at 200 c degrees or until the crust is light brown.
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Let cool.
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For the meringue: Place the egg white and sugar in a bowl.
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After 5 minutes of whipping, add food coloring.
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Continue to beat the mixture until stiff and standing in peaks (use an electric hand mixer).
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After that take the cooled pastry bases and get them ready to fill.
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Next put the meringue in a pastry bag with a piping tip and pipe the filling into the bases.
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Ive done this in the photo above.
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Next decorate the meringue by sticking the spiral piece of pastry in the top.
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Ive done this in the photo above.
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Then if you want, you can place a candle on the top of the spiral and you can even take a small strip of paper and write your fortune and connect it to the candle.
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Serve and enjoy.
