Star tartlets with vanilla walnut cream

AUTHOR
Kate Willis
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 4
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 10
  • 4 discs (à 45 g) deep-frozen puff pastry
  • 80 g Walnut kernel halves
  • 100 g Whipped cream
  • 1/2 package (125 g) QimiQ "Vanilla" (light cream base with 15% fat)
  • 1 TEASPOON + 100 g sugar
  • 1 package Vanillin sugar
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Icing sugar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Place the puff pastry slices next to each other and defrost. Roast 30 g walnuts in a pan. Take out and chop finely. Whip cream until stiff. Whisk QimiQ, 1 tsp sugar and vanillin sugar Fold in the cream and chopped walnuts Chill the cream for 1 1/2-2 hours (until the cream is relatively firm) Place the puff pastry slices on top of each other and roll out thinly on a floured work surface approx. 2 mm Cut out 10 stars (approx. 9 cm) and 10 circles (approx. 10 cm Ø) from the dough.

  2. 2

    Place each star and circle on a baking tray lined with baking paper and prick several times with a fork. Bake one after the other in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. Remove and let cool on a cake rack. Caramelise 100 g sugar in a pan. Add 50 g nuts, mix well and then place on a piece of baking paper. Pull the sugar mixture apart with 2 forks until caramel threads are formed. Let the nuts cool down. Pour cream into a piping bag with a large perforated spout and spray tuffs onto the puff pastry circles. Place stars on top and dust with icing sugar.

  3. 3

    Add 50 g nuts, mix well and then place on a piece of baking paper. Pull the sugar mixture apart with 2 forks until caramel threads are formed. Let the nuts cool down. Pour cream into a piping bag with a large perforated spout and spray tuffs onto the puff pastry circles. Place stars on top and dust with icing sugar. Decorate with caramel nuts before serving

  4. 4

    Waiting time approx. 1 hour

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
230 kcal
CARBS
21 g
FATS
15 g
PROTEINS
3 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & PastriessweetChristmas