Mille-Feuille Layer Cake

Ingredients

• 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
• This wonderful recipe for making mille-feuille with pastry cream is from a friend of the Sho Tabkhin Al-Youm website:
• Gihan Lio
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Method

1. Put the sugar on the egg yolks and stir well until combined, then add the flour and mix all ingredients until smooth.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Brush the puff pastry with a little melted butter and sprinkle with sugar, then bake it until golden.
5. Between each layer spread the pastry cream, and decorate the top layer with toasted almonds and available fruit or as desired.
6. 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.