Fruit Idyll
I think I have said everything with this name, any additional word or any additional description is unnecessary for this fruit idyll. I like to use season fruit as much as I can and in all possible ways, so I have decided to show you one of my combinations.
INGREDIENTS FOR PASTRY :
180 g of cottage cheese (15 % fat)
1 package of baking powder
180 g of sugar
2 packages of vanilla sugar
400 g of flour
1 egg
1 egg white
70 ml of oil
FILLING :
300 g of milk spread
2 packages of vanilla sugar
2 spoons of vanilla extract
fruit as needed
(depends on fruit you want to use)
COATING AND TOPPING :
3 spoons of apricot jam
130 g of powdered sugar
4 spoons of lemon juice
PREPARATION :
1 . heat the oven to 180 degrees …
2 . wash and dry the fruit, if you use nectarines, peaches, apricots and plums as I did, cut them to slices and if you use berries, just wash them. Put the fruit aside …
3 . mix milk spread, vanilla sugar and vanilla extract with a spoon and leave the mixture aside to prepare the pastry …
4 . put all the ingredients for pastry into a bowl and make smooth, somewhat sticky pastry …
5 . put the pastry on a floured work surface, stretch it with your hands and form a roller, then cut the pastry to the size you want your cakes to have …
6 . form balls from the pastry you have cut and flatten them with your hands to the thickness of 1 cm ( my pastry had the size of a palm when I flattened it and you can decide on your own which size you want to make – bigger or smaller)
7 . cover a big baking tray with parchment paper and line the formed cakes leaving some space among them as the pastry will grow during baking …
8 . press the middle with a spoon to get a small hole and an edge …
9 . fill the middle of the pastry with milk spread and line the fruit on it …
10 . put the Fruit Idyll into the heated oven for some 15 to 20 minutes, it depends on your oven (I baked the cakes for 20 minutes )
11 . coat the hot cakes with hot jam, and it is important to coat the edges well and the fruit lightly, just to make it look shiny …
12 . mix powdered sugar and lemon juice to get thick topping without lumps and pour one spoon of the topping on each cake, over edges and fruit …
13 . leave the cakes to cool, so that the topping hardens …
TIP :
Do not use frozen fruit because it releases a lot of liquid !!!
In winter days cinnamon goes extremely well with milk spread.
Put the Fruit Idyll into a box with a well- adhering cover and store it in the fridge during summer, so it does not go off.
If you store the Fruit Idyll properly (in a closed box, tray, etc…) you can enjoy it the following three days and it will be equally fine as on the first day.
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