Caramelized Pastry Wafers with Blackberry Crémet

Name: Caramelized Pastry Wafers with Blackberry Crémet
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 75 g (3 oz, scant ½ cup) caster sugar; A little lemon juice; 100 g (4 oz) puff pastry; 75 g (3 oz, ¾ cup) Icing sugar; 250 g (9 oz, 1½ cups) fresh blackberries; 200 g (7 oz, scant 1 cup) cream cheese or fromage frais; 200 ml (7 fl oz, scant 1 cup) double cream or creme fraîche, semi-whipped; 2 egg whites; 25 g (1 oz, 2 tablespoons) caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Passion for Cheese

By Paul Gayler

Published 1997

About

Here, the famous crémet d’Anjou mixture of cream and soft cheese is blended with a tart blackberry purée and served sandwiched between caramelized pastry wafers. It is quite some combination.

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz, scant 1 cup) cream cheese or fromage frais

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Put the cream cheese or fromage frais in a bowl and beat until smooth, then fold in the whipped cream or creme fraîche. Whisk the egg whites until they form stiff peaks. Fold in the caster sugar and then fold the egg whites into the cream cheese mixture. Set aside.

Put 100 g (