Shortcrust pastry goes well with protein cream, but just pastry and cream cakes are not interesting enough. Therefore, we supplement them with sweet and sour filling from caramel apples.
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You will need
- For the test:
- - 1 glass of flour;
- - 100 g butter;
- - 1 egg yolk.
- For apples:
- - 1 apple;
- - 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar;
- - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of butter.
- For cream:
- - 150 g of sugar;
- - 50 ml of water;
- - 2 egg whites;
- - 1 tbsp. a spoonful of lemon juice.
Instruction manual
1
Prepare the dough: mash flour and butter until crushed, add egg yolk and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Sprinkle the zest with half a lemon. Knead the dough, wrap it in cling film and put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
2
Prepare a protein cream: mix sugar with water in a saucepan, put on fire, cook for 10 minutes. Beat the whites separately with a pinch of salt for 10 minutes. Pour the thick syrup into the proteins in a thin stream, whisking the mass. Beat until the cream is set, then add lemon juice to fix, put the cream in the refrigerator.
3
It remains to cook the caramel apples: cut the apples into slices, put in a frying pan with the addition of butter, fry over medium heat until the apples become soft and slightly golden. Pour in sugar, turn over from time to time so that apples do not burn. They should become beautiful, golden, with viscous caramel sauce. Remove from heat, cool.
4
Put the dough in a thin layer in the molds to make tartlets. Prick with a fork, bake until golden brown at medium temperature (180 degrees).
5
Now collect the cakes: put slices of caramel apples in a sand basket, lay the protein cream on top (you can use a pastry syringe).
6
Cakes with caramel apples and protein cream are ready, according to this recipe you can cook any other caramel fruits as a filling.