Plum Napoleon with Sabayon

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Jeremiah Tower's New American Classics

By Jeremiah Tower

Published 1986

  • About

The best plums to use are ripe Simka, Santa Rosa, and Queen Anne, but any other combination of cultivated or wild plums will do, as long as they are ripe. The Napoleon has to be assembled at the very last moment so that the pastry does not become soggy. It takes only a few minutes to assemble and is an ideal, very easy, showstopper.

Ingredients

  • 2 rectangles puff pastry, 12 by 5 by ¼ inches
  • 12 ripe plums of 3 different varieties, pitted

Method

Heat the oven to 350°F.

Put the cold puff pastry pieces on a wet baking sheet and put them in the oven. Cook for 20 minutes. Let cool. When the pastry is cool, slice the pieces horizontally in half, so that you have 4 layers. Scoop any uncooked pastry from the center. Put the pieces on a tray and reserve.

Slice the plums and put them in a sauté pan. Add the granulated sugar, sal