strawberries | Sadie's Bubble of Yum

This post was meant to uploaded during Ramadaan, as I attempted it then – sorry! 🙂

When I stumbled upon this recipe, I was totally sold – white chocolate and strawberries, who can resist??? I made this for dessert the weekend before Eid when I invited my family over for iftaar. My sister in-law Aquilah (AKA Keely) got a teeny weeny obsessed with the custard filling, scooping left overs and inserting it into cream filled eclairs and anything else she could get her hands on, actually just eating the left overs with her hand 🙂 My nephew Zaydaan absolutely loves white chocolate and his favourite fruit is strawberries, the combination warranted a “I love you Aunty Saadiyah”. The heart shaped white chocolate inserted into the tartlets were just his ever-end. Oh how I love that little boy 🙂

This was actually meant to be White Chocolate and Raspberry Tartlets, but with raspberries being out of season, strawberries had to just do the trick.

This is perfect for any special occasion and you can have fun and go wild decorating them.

Onto the recipe….

Ingredients:

– 25g cornflour

– 3 medium egg yolks

– 400ml milk

– 1 vanilla pos, slit lengthways

– 100g white chocolate, melted, plus 60g extra white hot chocolate, melted, for lining the pastry cases

– 100ml double cleam

– punnet of strawberries or 300g raspberries

For the pastry:

– 175g plain flour, plus extra for dusting

– 90g salted butter, cubed

– 20g caster sugar

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celsius. To make the pastry – in a bowl, rub the flour and butter together with your fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Stir in the sugar, add 2-3 tablespoons of cold water and bring together to form a soft dough. Wrap in cling film and chill for one hour.

2. Meanwhile, make the crème patissière. In a large bowl, whisk together the cornflour and egg yolks. The mixture will be stiff at first but it will become easier to mix. Place the milk and the vanilla pod in a pan over a medium heat. When it reaches a simmering point, strain over the egg mixture, whisking all the time (discard the vanilla pod). Stir in 100g of the melted chocolate and whisk well. Return the custard to the pan and heat gently until thickened, whisking all the time. Set aside to cool, covering the surface with cling film to prevent a skin forming.

3. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to a 5mm thickness and use to line 6 × 10cm round ×2cm deep fluted tart tins, trimming any excess pastry. Line each with baking paper and beans and blind bake for 15 minutes. Remove the paper and beans and bake for a further 5 minutes until cooked and golden. Carefully remove the patsry cases from the tins and cool on a wire rack.

4. Once cool, brush the remaining melted chocolate into the tart cases in 2 coats, chilling between each coat.