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Recipe: Caramelised apple and summer fruit short-cut custard tart

A ready-to-eat tart case and the easiest custard make this dessert a festive winner

September 9, 2022 09:43
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ByVictoria Prever for The JC in partnership with M&S

1 min read

Cook: 25 minutes

Serves: 8 - 10

Chef Amir Batito shared with me the secret to restaurant quality crème pâtissière (aka confectioner’s custard) in minutes. It could not be simpler, and if you spoon it into a ready-made M&S all-butter sweet pastry case you will have the basis of a showstopper dessert. You maybe have surplus custard — but it will be delicious with chopped bananas or over a crumble.

Scatter with caramelised apple and summer berries for Rosh Hashanah, but it will look equally fabulous topped simply with an abundance of any seasonal fruits.

Method

  • To make the crème pâtissière: measure out all the ingredients before you start. Warm the 300ml milk with the sugar, salt and vanilla in a medium-sized pan until it starts to boil.

  • Mix the yolks, cornflour and 35ml milk in a small bowl.

  • When the saucepan of milk is hot, tip a little into the cornflour mixture and stir. Then tip the entire contents of the bowl into the pan and whisk it fast until it starts to thicken and the lumps have been removed. Once it has thickened, do not whisk it too much or it will become liquid again.

  • Pour into a bowl, cover, leave to cool, then refrigerate.

Topics:

M&S recipe

Rosh Hashanah recipe

dairy dessert

Apple cake

Ingredients

1 x M&S all-butter sweet pastry case
For the crème pâtissière:
300ml whole milk
80g golden caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
Large pinch of salt
40g cornflour
35ml whole milk
2 egg yolks
200ml double cream
For the topping:
3 medium Pink Lady apples, cored and chopped into ½cm dice
50g golden caster sugar
2 tbsp M&S Collection Select Farms British Honey
1 small pack each of M&S blackberries, raspberries and blueberries
A few sprigs of mint leaves to garnish (optional)