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Strawberry Tart
By laurence A
Cook the pastry, empty, in a flan tin with weights, for about 30 minutes
- 1 sweet pastry or puff pastry
- Crème pâtissière (custard cream):
- - 1/2 litre of milk, boiling hot
- - 80 g sugar
- - 4 yolks
- - 45 g cornstarch
- - 1/2 vanilla bean or vanilla extract
- - 20 g butter
- - 500 g strawberries
- - 1 small bunch mint leaves
- - 30g icing sugar
Fraisier cake
By ynasira
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4
- Cake
- 125g/4½oz caster sugar
- 4 free-range eggs
- 2 lemons, zest only, finely grated
- 125g/4½oz self-raising flour, plus extra for flouring
- 50g/1¾oz unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly, plus extra for greasing
- For the crème pâtissière
- 600ml/20fl oz milk
- vanilla pod
- 4 free-range eggs, plus 2 free-range egg yolks
- 180g/6¼oz caster sugar
- 100g/3½oz cornflour
- 150g/5½oz butter, cut into cubes and kept at room temperature
- For the lemon syrup
- 75g/2¾oz caster sugar
- 2 lemons, juice only
- To finish the cake
- 200g/7oz marzipan
- 200g/7oz dark chocolate, for decoration
- 600g/1lb 5oz medium sized strawberries
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