Cream Cheese Mille Feuilles
Ingredients
- 8 oz plain flour for the puff pastry or 12 1/2 oz frozen puff pastry thawed
- 1 egg white
- caster sugar
filling:
- 5 1/2 oz full fat soft cheese
- 2 1/2 oz caster sugar
- 5 floz double cream
- 3 tbsp raspberry jam
topping:
- 3 1/2 oz icing sugar sifted
- 2 oz plain chocolate
Instructions
- Oven: 200°C, 400°F, Gas Mark 6
- Roll out the pastry quite thinly and cut into two strips, each 20 by 7.5 cm/8 by 3 inches. Place on greased baking sheets and prick at regular intervals.
- Whisk the egg white lightly and brush over the dough strips. Sprinkle with caster sugar and leave to rest for 30 minutes.
- Bake in a preheated oven for about 20 minutes or until lightly golden and well risen. Allow to cool.
- Soften the cheese in a mixing bowl. Beat in the caster sugar.
- Lightly whip the cream and fold into the cheese mixture.
- Spread one baked pastry strip with the raspberry jam and top with the cream cheese mixture.
- Place the second pastry strip on top. Mix the icing sugar with a little hot water to give a thin coating icing.
- Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of hot water.
- Spread the icing evenly over the mille feuilles and pipe thin parallel lines of chocolate on the icing.
- Drag at regular intervals with the tip of a knife to give a feathered effect. Allow to set.
Calories: 500 kcal
Carbohydrates: 72 g
Protein: 7 g
Fat: 22g
Saturated Fat: 13 g
Cholesterol: 62 mg
Sodium: 107 mg
Potassium: 139 mg
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 39 g
Vitamin A: 711 IU
Vitamin C: 1 mg
Calcium: 52 mg
Iron: 2 mg