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Allumettes with café au lait anglaise

Australian Gourmet Traveller recipe for allumettes with café au lait anglaise.
Allumettes with café au lait anglaise

Allumettes with café au lait anglaise

Ben Dearnley
6 - 8
30M
15M
45M

Crisp matchsticks of puff pastry are made just that little bit sweeter by a thin glaze spread over them before baking. Although these beauties are great on their own, they’re even better with a coffee-spiked anglaise for dipping.

Ingredients

Café au lait anglaise

Method

Main

1.For café au lait anglaise, bring cream, milk, coffee, vanilla bean and seeds, and rind to the simmer in a saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk yolks and sugar in a bowl until sugar dissolves, pour in cream mixture and whisk to combine. Return to pan and stir continuously until mixture thickly coats the back of a wooden spoon (4-5 minutes), then strain and refrigerate until chilled (1-2 hours).
2.Preheat oven to 200C. Roll out pastry on a lightly floured surface to a rough 3mm-thick rectangle, place on a tray lined with baking paper and freeze until firm (10-15 minutes).
3.Meanwhile, beat eggwhite, icing sugar and vanilla paste in an electric mixer until thick and smooth (3-4 minutes). Spread over frozen pastry in a thin even layer and return to freezer for another 5 minutes. Trim edges of pastry carefully with a sharp knife (if pastry is a little brittle, stand for 1-2 minutes), then cut into 2cm x 12cm rectangles and place on baking trays lined with baking paper. Bake until light golden and crisp (8-10 minutes), then set aside to cool slightly. Serve with café au lait anglaise for dipping.

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