Strawberry Puff Pastry with Dulce de Leche

09 Mar Strawberry Puff Pastry with Dulce de Leche

This is a great dessert for a summer dinner because is fresh and light. The only thing that will consume some time will be the “dulce de leche”.

Ingredients:

2 sheets of puff pastry

2 cans of condensed milk

2 cans of evaporated milk

300 grams of strawberry

300 ml whipped cream

6 tablespoon icing sugar 

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Prep:

1. Preheat the oven at 180ºC. Cut the puff pastry in half, so you have two rectangles for each sheet. Put the sheet into a baking pan and cook them for 20 minutes or until is golden brown. I have to bake them in two batches because my oven is not so big. Reserve for using later. 
2. To prepare the “Dulce de Leche” (or “Manjar Blanco” as we know it in Perú) put the condensed milk and evaporated milk in a pot. Cook them over medium heat and keep stirring all the time until it thickened. You must see the bottom of the pot. You will stir for approximately 30 minutes. Pour the mixture in a bowl to cool it down and put a wrapping film over the mixture to prevent a crust for forming. Reserve.
3. Wash the strawberries and cut the steams. Reserve them.
4.  To make the chantilly cream freeze beforehand the whipping cream, bowl and beaters. At least for 15 minutes. 
5. Put the refrigerated whipping cream into the freeze bowl and beat them until it starts to thicken. Add the icing sugar one spoon at a time. Finally, add the vanilla. Not overbeat.
6. To assembly, put one puff pastry sheet and cover with “Dulce the Leche” continue with all the sheet until the last one. Arrange the strawberries in the top and decorate it with the chantilly cream in a piping bag. If you don’t have a piping bag you could decorate your dessert with a knife putting the chantilly into the borders.

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Hi! I’m Valeria (aka Val) the photographer and recipe developer behind Canguro Criollo. My passion for food began when I was little at my home when everything will revolve around food and now I discover this new creative outlet of food photography. I wish you can follow my journey discovering unique ways of preparing Peruvian food abroad and some other family-friendly foods.