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1 roll ready made puff pastry
icing sugar, to dust
2 Elstar apples
150g blackberries
1 tablespoon vanilla sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
juice of 1/2 a lemon
50g butter
300 ml double cream
35g caster sugar
In our neighbourhood lots of blackberries grow just by the wayside. Not only it's fun to pick berries with the kids but also to contemplate what we will use them for. This time we make mille feuille with blackberries and apple. Yummy!
How to make Blackberry Mille Feuille
Preheat the oven to 200°C
Wash the blackberries real thorough.
Let them leak out on kitchen paper.
Divide the puff pastry in three pieces.
Make holes in 2 pieces using a fork.
Dust the dough with icing sugar.
Bake the puff pastry for 10-12 minutes.
Cook the apples for a minute in the butter.
Add 45 ml water, the vanilla sugar and the cinnamon and bring it to the boil again.
Add the blackberries to the apples.
Also add the lemon juice.
Cook the apple mixture app. 10 minutes*.
Beat the cream stiff with the sugar.
* Let the fruit mixture cool once it has thickened then place it in the fridge for a little while.
Lay a layer of fruit then cream on the pastry.
Repeat it, but now cream first then fruit.
Decorate the mille feuille with a tip of cream.
Because of the fresh taste of apple and blackberry, this is a really delicious pastry in autumn. But you can not make it in advance. The three separate parts of it can be kept fine but the tarts must be assembled last minute. Otherwise they get soggy because of the juice. But it's worth the bother because the tarts are a real treat!