RASPBERRY AND BLUEBERRY MILLEFEUILLES
Ingredients
- 350g/12oz plain flour
- 250g/9oz butter
- frozen
- pinch salt
- 250g/9oz raspberries
- icing sugar
- 115g/4oz icing sugar
- red food colouring
- water
- 600ml/1 pint double cream
- whipped
- 2 punnets blueberries
- 115g/4oz toasted hazelnuts
- finely chopped
- 1 orange
- zest only
- 12 raspberries
- 12 mint leaves
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/425F/Gas 7. Line three baking trays with greaseproof paper. You'll also need another baking tray.
- For the pastry
- sift the flour into a clean bowl. Grate the butter into the flour
- add the salt and mix together with a palette knife. Add just enough cold water to form a dough.
- Roll the dough out on a floured board into a rectangle
- fold it into thirds
- turn 90 degrees and roll it out to a rectangle again. Repeat this folding
- rolling and truning at least three more times then fold once more
- wrap in cling film and chill in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
- Roll the pastry out thinly and cut 36 rectangles
- each 10cm x 5cm/4in x 2in. Place 12 onto each baking tray and cover with a sheet of greaseproof paper.
- Place the empty baking tray onto one of the trays of pastry ad bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove the empty tray and the top layer of paper
- dust the pastry with icing sugar and cook for a further 10-12 minutes. Let the pastry cool on a wire rack.
- Repeat step 5 with the other two trays of pastry rectangles.
- For the coulis
- pass the raspberries through a fine sieve
- sweeten to taste with icing sugar and spoon into a piping bag fitted with a small nozzle.
- For the icing
- mix the icing sugar with a few drops of red food colouring and enough water to make a thick paste.
- For the filling
- spoon the whipped cream into in a piping bag fitted with a plain nozzle.
- To assemble the millefeuilles
- pipe a little whipped cream onto a pastry rectangle
- add a few blueberries and pipe over some raspberry coulis. Cover with another pastry rectangle
- repeat the blueberry
- cream an raspberry layer then add the top sheet of pastry. Dust with icing sugar and pipe on a strip of the pink icing. Mix together the chopped hazelnuts and orange zest
- sprinkle over the icing and garnish with a raspberry and a mint leaf.

