Strawberry Cream Fancies

Name: Strawberry Cream Fancies
Yield: Makes 8
Ingredients: ½ vanilla pod, cut in half lengthways; 150 ml double cream; 2 teaspoons lemon juice; 4 large free-range egg yolks; 185 g butter; 125 ml cold water; 10 g cornflour; 250 ml whole milk; 75 g caster sugar; 10 g plain flour; a good pinch of fine sea salt; 1 tablespoon icing sugar, plus about 4 teaspoons for baking and extra for dusting; 225 g strong plain flour, plus extra for rolling; 600 g small fresh strawberries

Preparation info

Makes
8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

What to Eat Now (Spring & Summer)

By Valentine Warner

Published 2009

About

Every now and then I do like a sweet fancy, so here is one. Please excuse the cat on the table (it was hard to resist framing this cute scene with a misty border).

Ingredients

600 g small fresh strawberries

Dessert
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

To make the biscuits, sift the flour, icing sugar and salt into a large bowl. Cut the butter into roughly 2cm pieces and drop into the flour. Toss around with a large metal spoon until the butter is lightly coated in the flour. Mix the water and lemon juice and pour into the flour and butter. Use a table knife to cut across the bowl several times, chopping the butter into the flour until the do