Greg Doyle, Grant King, Katrina Kanetani

Strawberry Vanilla Spider – Strawberry Puff Pastry Tart

Name: Strawberry Vanilla Spider – Strawberry Puff Pastry Tart
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream; 200 ml (7 fl oz) soda water; 100-150 g (3½-5½ oz) puff pastry; 100 g (3½ oz) strawberries; 50 ml (1¾ fl oz) sugar syrup; 8 perfect strawberries; 100 ml (3½ fl oz) pastry cream; seeds scraped from 1 split vanilla pod; 80 g (2¾ oz) icing (confectioner’s) sugar; 250 g (9 oz) ripe strawberries in season

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Pier

By Greg Doyle , Grant King and Katrina Kanetani

Published 2008

About

Ingredients

Spider

250 g (9 oz) ripe strawberries in season
80 g (2¾

Oceania
Australia
Sydney
Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

To make the spider syrup, crush or purée the strawberries with the icing sugar and vanilla seeds. Pass through a fine-mesh sieve and then chill.

To make the strawberry tart, roll the puff pastry into a 14 × 11 cm (5½ × 4