Name: Strawberries & cream layer
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 375g block all-butter puff pastry; 4 tbsp icing sugar; 450g ripe strawberry or normal and wild; 1 vanilla pod or 1 tsp vanilla extract; 284ml pot double cream; 140g golden caster sugar

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Strawberries & cream layer

Strawberries & cream layer

Barney Desmazery

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 20 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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Turn strawberries and cream into a pudding to remember with the simple addition of puff pastry sheets

Easily doubled

Easily halved

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Ingredients

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375g block all-butter puff pastry
4 tbsp icing sugar
450g ripe strawberry

or normal and wild
1 vanilla pod

or 1 tsp vanilla extract
284ml pot double cream
140g golden caster sugar

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal931
fat60g
saturates30g
carbs96g
sugars62g
fibre1g
protein7g
salt0.81g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Roll the pastry out to a square about 30 x 30cm. Lay on a large baking sheet, place another sheet on top and bake for about 20 mins until golden. Heat the grill to high, dust the pastry liberally with icing sugar and carefully caramelise under the grill. Dust with another layer of icing sugar and return to the grill to caramelise again. While warm, cut the pastry biscuits into 12 neat rectangles, trimming the edges as you go. These can now be kept in an airtight container for a day.
step 2

Halve or quarter the strawberries, depending on their size, then dust with a little icing sugar and set aside. Split the vanilla pod and scrape the seeds into the cream, then whip lightly with the caster sugar until it just holds its shape.
step 3

To assemble, place a blob of cream on each plate and, at jaunty angles, stack the biscuits, cream and strawberries.

RECIPE TIPS

WHY NOT TRY...

Frying sliced strawberries briefly in butter and honey, then serve hot from the pan with vanilla ice-cream.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, July 2007

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