Strawberry Mille Feuille

Strawberry Mille Feuille is a delicious dessert made with layers of flaky puff pastry, velvety diplomat creme, and juicy fresh strawberries. While the strawberries are still in the season, I wanted to share one of my favourite summer puddings which have been a family favourite for over 20 years.

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This delicious summer pudding is not only easy to make but is also versatile. You can fill the puff pastries with your choice of cream or you can replace the strawberries with other berries or bananas. I use the same recipe for the diplomat creme that I use for French Strawberry Tart but you can use simple pastry cream or creme chantilly.

How to Make Strawberry Mille Feuille?

Making Strawberry Mille Feuille is quite easy. However, to achieve the best results, you need to follow few steps:

• Cook the puff pastry – Preheat the oven to 190 °C (fan oven). Unroll the puff pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface. Cut in 10 equal rectangular pieces (2 of the rectangular might be slightly larger). Place them on a tray lined with parchment paper and cook for 15 minutes or until lightly golden brown. Let the cooked puff pastries cool down and start making the creme diplomat.

• Prepare the creme diplomat – Place the milk, butter, and vanilla paste in a saucepan and gently bring to simmer on low heat. Remove the saucepan from the heat. In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks and sugar until the mixture becomes pale and thick. Add the flour along with the cornflour and whisk to combine. Add half of the hot milk into the flour-egg mixture, whisking well, and return the mixture into the saucepan with the rest of the milk. Return the saucepan to heat and cook until it thickens, whisking continuously. Let it boil for a minute stirring continuously then remove from the heat. Let it cool down to room temperature. When the pastry cream has reached room temperature, start whipping the double cream until you reach stiff peaks. Whisk the pastry cream to loosen then fold in the whipped cream gently in 2 stages.

• Build the Strawberry Mille Feuille – Split the puff pastries in half and put 1- 1 ½ tbsp of diplomat cream on top of the half puff pastry sheet. Place a couple of tablespoons of chopped strawberries on top of the diplomat cream then place the other puff pastry sheet on top. Repeat same for all of the puff pastries. Sprinkle on some icing sugar using a small sieve and place a piece of strawberry for garnish.

I hope you enjoy the process of making this delightful Strawberry Mille Feuille as much as you enjoy eating it! 🙂

Bon appétit! / Afiyet olsun!

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