RASPBERRY AND BLUEBERRY MILLEFEUILLES
RASPBERRY AND BLUEBERRY MILLEFEUILLES
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.