Peach Melba Mille Feuille

Name: Peach Melba Mille Feuille
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 cups (500 ml) water; 2 cups (440 g) caster sugar; icing sugar for dusting; 1-2 tbsp icing sugar for raspberries (if needed); 300 ml cream; 2 sheets (500 g) butter puff pastry, thawed; 1 vanilla pod cut in half lengthways; 6 fresh peaches, peeled and sliced or 2 x 410 g canned sliced peaches in syrup; 500 g raspberries, fresh or thawed from frozen

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Medium

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Ripe Recipes

By Angela Redfern

Published 2010

About

Peach Melba is a famous dessert created by Georges Auguste Escoffier while he was chef at The Savoy, London. From that, we have taken the combination of raspberry and peaches to layer this mille feuille (literally, “a thousand leaves”). This dessert can’t be made in advance, it needs to be layered and enjoyed immediately.

Ingredients

1 vanilla pod cut in half lengthways
6 fresh peaches, peeled and sliced or 2 x 410 g canned sliced peach

Europe
United Kingdom
France
Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat oven to 200°C.

If using fresh peaches prepare the sugar syrup

Place a saucepan over a medium heat and combine the sugar and water with the vanilla pod. Bring to the boil and lower the heat to a si