Saturday, 13 September 2008

Strawberry & cream Puffs



A Simple Dessert using up half a packet of puff pastry:

Half a pot of Double Cream
Golden Caster Sugar (50 g)
Half a packet of puff pastry
Icing sugar
Strawberries

  1. Roll out your puff pastry to make a square (you'll need a floured surface and floured rolling pin or things will get messy).
  2. Put the pastry on a baking tray and place another baking tray on top of the pastry (this will stop things getting too 'puffed')
  3. Put the pastry in the oven at 200oC (fan oven, 220oC non-fan) for 20 mins until golden.
  4. Remove the pastry, and dust with icing sugar.
  5. Heat your grill to high
  6. Put your pastry underneath the grill to caramelise. Watch carefully! At this point mine pretty much burnt, but was still edible, just.
  7. Cut the pastry into rectangles, whilst it is still warm.
  8. Whip the cream lightly with the caster sugar and add a few drops of vanilla extract, until the cream just holds its shape.
  9. Slice the strawberries.
  10. Assemble the puffs, add cream to each pastry rectangle and arrange the strawberries on top. Add another pastry rectangle on the top if you haven't burnt half of them *ahem*
  11. Dust with icing sugar to serve.
Notes: As mentioned - keep a close eye as you grill the pastry. I also found the cream too sweet so adding the caster sugar is probably unnecessary.

1 comment:

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