Strawberry coussinets with vanilla crème fraiche

Name: Strawberry coussinets with vanilla crème fraiche
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 800 ml liquid cream; 150 g icing sugar; 2 vanilla pods; 1 recipe vanilla sauce (crème anglaise) (see BASICS); 1 recipe vanilla sauce (crème anglaise) (see BASICS); icing sugar for sprinkling; mint leaf hearts to garnish; 5 eggs, yolks and whites separated; 75 g castor sugar; 30 g cornflour; 30 g cake flour; 1,3 kg ripe, perfect strawberries

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Feast

By Franck Dangereux

Published 2004

About

A coussinet is a round, soft cushion that you use to sit on the floor. I like the name, and the shape of this dessert is very similar.

Ingredients

1,3 kg ripe, perfect strawberries
5 eggs, yolks and whites separated
75 g

Europe
France
Dessert
Vegetarian
Spring
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Paint an oven baking tray with oil, then line it with wax paper. Cut the paper to fit the tray exactly. Brush melted butter on top of the wax paper. Keep aside.

Beat the egg yolks until smooth and creamy. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites