Millefoglie with Strawberries

Missing bar/restaurant Kazerne? Fancy some homemade millefoglie with strawberries? Kazerne’s Clark žďárský shares his recipe.

Clark’s tip: “Make sure to use fresh eggs when making the pastry cream.”

Clark’s video can be found under the recipe. More cooking videos? Watch them here.  

Recipe

Puff Pastry

• Mix the flour, the salt and butter in a mixing bowl.

• Add the water and 1 egg yolk.

• Kneed it until the dough forms a ball. There swill be some pieces of butter visible.

• Roll out the dough to around 20×25 cm and fold it into thirds – fold up one-third from the bottom, then a third from the top over it.

• Put the dough into the fridge for an hour.

• Repeat the rolling, folding and resting in the fridge 3 times.

• Preheat the oven at 190 degrees, before pulling out the dough from the fridge.

• Roll out the dough (around 1 cm thick) and prick some small holes in it with a fork.

• Cut it into 12 pieces.

• Brush the dough with a mix of 1 egg yolk and some water (2: 1).

• Bake the dough until evenly browned and puffed.

Pastry cream

• Boil 2/3 of milk with sugar, butter and vanilla.

• Stir the remaining milk with the egg yolk.

• Add the egg-and-milk mixture to the milk-and-sugar mixture and whisk it.

• Turn down the heat of the stove.

• Add the flour.

• Let it cook for about 2-3 minutes while stirring constantly.

• Transfer it to a bowl and let it cool.

• Stir the cold dough with whipped cream and keep in the fridge until you will use it.

The Pastries

• Cut the strawberries in half.

• Take one piece of puff pastry.

• Put some cream in the middle over the long side with the help of a piping bag.

• Decorate both edges of the puff pastry with some strawberries.

• Put another puff pastry on top of it.

• Decorate the top with a layer of cream with a piping bag.

• Top it with some strawberries.

• Garnish it with some of the fresh mint leaves and an edible flower.

• Enjoy!