Crumble snails with currants

AUTHOR
Jennie Fields
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 4
COOK TIME
105 mins
TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16
  • 1 cube (42 g) Yeast
  • 1 TABLESPOON + 50 g + 30 g sugar
  • 1/4 l Milk
  • 500 g + a little + 4 tablespoons flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 75 g soft + 30 g butter
  • 600 g Currants (e.g. red, white, black)
  • 125 g double cream
  • 1 package Vanilla sauce powder
  • 200 g Marzipan paste
  • 125 g Icing sugar
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Stir yeast and 1 tablespoon of sugar until the yeast becomes liquid. Warm the milk lukewarm. Knead 500 g flour, 1 pinch of salt, 50 g sugar, milk and yeast with the dough hooks of the mixer, kneading 75 g soft butter in flakes until the dough is smooth.

  2. 2

    If it forms a ball, continue kneading for about 3 minutes. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour.

  3. 3

    Wash the currants and drain well. Strip the berries from the panicles with a fork. Mix the Double cream, vanilla sauce powder and 30 g sugar.

  4. 4

    Briefly knead the yeast dough on some flour. Roll out to a rectangle (approx. 35 x 50 cm). Spread vanilla cream on top, leaving a rim of about 2 cm all around. Sprinkle with berries.

  5. 5

    Roll up the dough from the short side. Cut into about 16 slices. Place on two baking trays lined with baking paper. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes.

  6. 6

    Preheat oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/circulating air: 175 °C/gas: see manufacturer). Coarsely chop the marzipan and knead it with 4 tbsp. flour, 30 g butter in pieces and 1 pinch of salt to form crumbles. Sprinkle on the snails.

  7. 7

    Bake in a hot oven for about 25 minutes each time. Stir icing sugar and 2 tablespoons of water until smooth. Take out snails and immediately sprinkle with the icing. Let them cool down.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
380 kcal
CARBS
57 g
FATS
13 g
PROTEINS
6 g