Mille-feuille recipe

 Preparation : 30 mn                     Cooking time : 25 mn                                Oven temperature : 180°C

Ingredients

For the  pastry dough :    - 500 g puff dough

For the custard cream : - 1 egg     -1 vanilla bean    - 1/4 l milk   - 50 g sugar  - 35 g flour- 1 vanilla sugar

For the icing : powdered sugar, chocolate

Preparation :

Preheat your oven to 180°.

1)      Roll out the puff pastry dough into a rectangle

With a knife, cut the dough into three equally-sized pieces..

Bake the dough  25 minutes, press on it when it comes out of the oven

2)      Mix in a bowl the egg  and sugar together ,add the flour.

In a saucepan, heat the milk  with the vanilla bean almost to boiling.

Remove the vanilla bean from the hot milk, and gradually whisk the hot milk into the egg mixture.

 Strain the mixture back into the saucepan, and place over medium heat, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens and reaches a boil.

 Continue cooking for half a minute longer, stirring hard and constantly to keep the pastry cream smooth.

Remove the pastry cream from the heat and leave to cool.

3)      Make 2 layers of cream over the  pastry, pressing gently.Top with the third layer of pastry and again press down gently.

4)      Melt the sugar and water, add the chocolate and decorate