Strawberry feuilleté
This elegant French dessert is not quite a tart. The base is a circle of puff pastry baked and caramelized, then topped when cold with a thin layer of lime-flavoured confectioner's custard and beautiful fresh strawberries.
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Last modified on: May 27th 2018
Keywords for this recipe:Puff pastryFeuilletéCaramelizedStrawberriesConfectionner's custardLimeFor 1 feuilleté, you will need:
- 1
400 g Lemon Confectioner's Custard - 2
4 drops food colouring (optional) - 3
200 g Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) - 4
50 g caster sugar - 5
500 g strawberries - 6
fresh mint leaves (optional) - Total weight: 1,150 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 43 min. | 43 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 30 min.
Lime confectioner's custard
Prepare 400 g Lemon Confectioner's Custard, but using lime rather than the lemon in the original recipe.When finished, you can add a few drops of green food colouring to the cream if you wish. A slight green tinge looks good against the red of the strawberries.
Stage 2
Prepare a "feuilletage" with 200 g Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) and 50 g caster sugar, as shown here.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Once the puff pastry base is cold, spread the lime confectioner's custard evenly over the top, if possible with a palette knife.
Stage 4 - 10 min.
Arrange the strawberries on top of the custard, allowing your artistic side to express itself...
Stage 5
...and finish with a sprig of fresh mint.
Remarks
It might not look like it, but this recipe is quite technical and does require a certain amount of know-how, especially to cook the puff pastry base perfectly.
Once you have got the hang of it, you can use your imagination to create as many different versions as you like using different creams and fruit.
Once you have got the hang of it, you can use your imagination to create as many different versions as you like using different creams and fruit.
Keeping
Should be eaten the day it is made.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 968 Kcal or 4,053 Kj | 33 gr | 203 gr | 90 gr |
| 48 % | 13 % | 19 % | 14 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 84 Kcal or 352 Kj | 3 gr | 18 gr | 8 gr |
| 4 % | 1 % | 2 % | 1 % |
| Per feuilleté | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 968 Kcal or 4,053 Kj | 33 gr | 203 gr | 90 gr |
| 48 % | 13 % | 19 % | 14 % |
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Source
Home made.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Strawberries: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Strawberry Charlotte, Strawberry mousse with mascarpone, You should not soak strawberries in water, Eton mess, Strawberry tart, ... All |
 | Lemon Confectioner's Custard: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Clafoutis "Marie-Antoinette", Lemon and lime custard tart, Mini lemon millefeuilles, Lemon Meringue Pie Verrines, ... All |
 | Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Shallot confit tart, Tomato and courgette tart, Leek and artichoke tart à la piémontaise, Ch'ti mussel tarts, Chicken and mushroom pie, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramelized pear custard tart, Tarte Normande, Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake, Jelly-style plum jam, Brioche royale, ... All |
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