Millefeuille[final photo]
Millefeuille is one of the best pastries available, if it is well made, i.e.: 2 layers of light vanilla cream between 3 layers of fine crispy (possibly caramelized) puff pastry.
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For 5 people, you will need:



Nutritional information:

Whole recipe
Calories
2459
98%
Proteins
33g
4%
Carbohydrates
234g
17%
Fats
155g
41%
 Per 100 g 
Calories
304
12%
Proteins
4g
1%
Carbohydrates
29g
2%
Fats
19g
5%
 Per person 
Calories
491
20%
Proteins
6g
1%
Carbohydrates
46g
3%
Fats
30g
8%

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2500 k-calories by day for a man (change to a woman).

Times:

 Preparation : 45 min.
 Cooking : 30 min.
 Start to finish : 1 hour 15 min.

How much?

 For 5 people : 4.24 $CA
 Per person : 0.85 $CA

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Step by step recipe:

The day before, or several hours before, make crème pâtissière (confectioner's custard).

Roll out puff pastry as thinly as possible. Then put on a baking sheet in the fridge for about one hour, so that if it needs to shrink, it happens in the fridge instead of the oven.

It is very difficult to make a regular rectangle (see photo) but don't worry about that.

Preheat oven to 410°F (210°C).

 [Photo of step #1]
Put a sheet of cooking parchment onto pastry and place a cooling rack on top. We do that to stop puff pastry swelling too much during cooking, essential for millefeuilles.

Put in the oven for about 30 minutes, but remove paper and rack after 20 minutes to allow pastry to brown.

 [Photo of step #2]
When pastry is cooked, remove from the oven, allow to cool a little and put on a rack to finish cooling. [Photo of step #3]
With a bread knife or steak knife, trim the edges of puff pastry to get a regular rectangle (you can use a ruler to help with this). [Photo of step #4]
Cut the rectangle into three. (use the first piece as a template to cut the others to the same size)

Look at the three parts to determinate the best looking, that means flat, regular and brown. This will be the top of your millefeuille.

 [Photo of step #5]
Make whipped cream and fold it gently into crème pâtissière, with a maryse by turning with the bowl tipped at an angle. [Photo of step #6]
You will get a delicious vanilla cream, light and perfumed. [Photo of step #7]
On the serving plate (quite impossible to move a millefeuille when finished without catastrophe), put the least pretty piece of pastry. [Photo of step #8]
With a forcing bag full of cream, pipe small balls or rosettes of cream... [Photo of step #9]
... over the whole surface. [Photo of step #10]
Then gently add the second piece of puff pastry. [Photo of step #11]
Cover with more piped balls of cream. [Photo of step #12]
Mix 1 tablespoon water with 4 tablespoons icing sugar to make a glacé icing, and spread over top of last (and best) piece of puff pastry.

You can also add trails of melted chocolate, but it's not easy to do well.

If you want to be sure of quick success, just sprinkle top with icing sugar.

 [Photo of step #13]
And finally, place the last puff pastry piece on top.

Your millefeuille is ready to serve.

 [Photo of step #14]

Remarks:

Millefeuilles can be made in an infinite variety of shapes and flavours, but keeping to this basic principle: 2 layers of something soft between 3 layers of something crispy. Just by keeping puff pastry and replacing vanilla cream with a layer of raspberries or strawberries and a lime cream, it's extraordinary.

Be careful!: You can put your millefeuille in the fridge to wait, but not too long: 4-5 hours maximum, never more, never overnight! Because eventually the cream will soak into the pastry, and you will get that horrible limp thing that bad bakers try to pass off as millefeuille.

Source:

Home made

Last modified on: February 27th 2010

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