Description:

A puff pastry dessert

Source:

funkeybroad

Serves/Makes:8 or more

Ingredients

• 1 recipe basic puff pastry
• 1 recipe creme filling
• 2 oz (56 grm). semi-sweet chocolate
• Creme filling:
• 1 cup (225 ml) milk
• 1/2 cup (125 ml) sugar
• 3 tbsp (45 ml). flour
• 1/8 tsp (1 ml). salt
• 2 slightly beaten yolks
• 1-1/2 tsp (7 ml). vanilla

Preparation

• Heat milk in heavy bottomed saucepan until hot but not boiling.
• Mix sugar, flour, salt in a bowl; stir in hot milk and beat until well blended.
• Pour back in pan and stir hard over very low heat until thick and smooth.
• Temper yolks with bit of hot mixture, pour into pan and cook 3 to 4 minutes more.
• Cool, stirring occasionally.
• When room temperature, add vanilla and stir well.
• Preheat oven to 425 degrees (225 C.).
• Roll out half of puff pastry into a 1/8" thick 6"x16" rectangle. (Put other half in fridge to keep cold).
• Sprinkle a cookie sheet with water and shake off excess. Put dough on sheet and prick all over with fork.
• Bake 20 to 25 minutes.
• Cool on rack.
• Bake other half of dough.
• Gently cut each rectangles into 3 long strips, 2" or so wide, and split each of these in 1/2 lengthwise.
• Spread the creme filling on 9 of the long strips.
• Stack in piles of 3.
• Top with the 3 other strips.
• Melt the chocolate and drizzle back and forth on top of stacks.
• Cut diagaonally into serving size pieces.

Comments

Mom made these this way. A sister uses confectioners frosting before drizzling chocolate on the top; daughter-in-law puts slightly sweetened raspberries in the middle. Hope you enjoy them.