Prune, Calvados and Chocolate Flake

Name: Prune, Calvados and Chocolate Flake
Yield: Serves 6-8
Ingredients: 150 ml/¼ pint Calvados; 200 ml/7 fl oz whipping cream; 115 g/4 oz dark chocolate, broken into pieces; 225 g/8 oz Agen prunes (or similar quality) weighed without stones; pinch salt; 150 ml/¼ pint ice-cold water; 150 ml/¼ pint whipping cream; 225 g/8 oz unsalted butter; 225 g/8 oz strong flour

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

A delightful variation on puff pastry mille-feuille.

Ingredients

Puff Pastry Leaves

225 g/8 oz strong flour
pinch salt
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Cake
Vegetarian

Method

First make the puff pastry

Sift the flour with a pinch of salt. Add the ice water and mix with a fork to a doughy consistency. Turn on to a work surface and knead thoroughly for four or five minutes until smooth - almost like you would bread. Wrap in polythene or a cloth and leave in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to rest.

Lightly flour the work-to