Desserts
ChefJihan Liu
Mille-Feuille Layer Cake
An inventive, non-traditional method for preparing mille-feuille cake. You can choose decorations you like to finish the mille-feuille, as it remains one of the tastiest and most beautiful cakes to serve.
Ingredients
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- Pastry cream
- 5 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup sugar (to taste)
- 5 tablespoons flour
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1/2 liter milk
- 1 teaspoon butter
- zest of 1 lemon
Method
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- Put the sugar on the egg yolks and stir well until combined, then add the flour and mix all ingredients until smooth.
- Bring the milk with the vanilla to a gentle boil over low heat; remove from the heat when it boils and add the egg, sugar and flour mixture. Stir well, then return the mixture to medium heat and stir until it thickens to a creamy consistency. Remove from the heat and set aside to cool.
- Roll out a sheet of puff pastry on a baking tray and prick it slightly with a fork so it won’t puff up during baking.
- Brush the puff pastry with a little melted butter and sprinkle with sugar, then bake it until golden.
- Between each layer spread the pastry cream, and decorate the top layer with toasted almonds and available fruit or as desired.
- You can also boil 1 cup sugar with 4 tablespoons butter and vanilla; add sliced almonds to the sugar mixture and, after boiling, pour them over the baked pastry.
Recipe tags
DessertsLevantVegetarianGluten freeNut freeHigh proteinBakedRoastedEidEggs
