Crispy winter millefeuille cake

Puffy and crispy cake with vanilla custard and slight berry sourness.
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Crispy winter Millefeuille cake

Ingredients

The pastry
butter
400g
14oz
1.60cup
26.80tbsp
flour
400g
14oz
1.60cup
26.80tbsp
salt
5g
0.18oz
0.34tbsp
water
170ml
5.61fl oz
0.68cup
11.39tbsp
powdered sugar
60g
2.10oz
4tbsp
The custard
egg yolk
2pc
sugar
80g
2.80oz
0.32cup
5.36tbsp
cornstarch
35g
1.23oz
2.35tbsp
milk
300ml
9.90fl oz
1.20cup
20tbsp
vanilla paste (vanilla sugar)
to taste
condensed milk
280g
9.80oz
1cup
18.76tbsp
butter
250g
8.75oz
1cup
16.75tbsp
Berry confit
frozen blueberries
150g
5.25oz
0.60cup
10tbsp
sugar
50g
1.75oz
3.35tbsp
starch
5g
0.18oz
0.34tbsp
cold water
15g
0.51fl oz

Method

The pastry

  • Place the butter in the freezer overnight in advance.
  • Place the water in the freezer an hour before cooking.
  • Sift the flour, add salt.
  • On a coarse grater, quickly grate the butter, periodically mixing it with flour.
  • Pour in very cold water, and mix quickly. *Kneading until homogeneous is not necessary. Just grab the pastry into a ball. Put in a bag and refrigerate for half an hour.
  • Divide the dough into 10 even pieces.
  • Roll out on parchment into a thin layer, cut out a circle of the right size, sprinkle with powdered sugar and bake together with the trimmings in a preheated oven at 464F (240C) in the convention mode for 6-7 minutes.
  • Place on wire rack and cool completely.

*Cold dough is easier and faster to roll out without extra flour, so keep the rest pieces in the freezer while rolling out a copuple of them.

The custard

  • Mix the yolks with sugar and starch, add hot milk. Cook until thickened. Remove from the heat and add vanilla paste.
    Cover with cling film and cool completely.
  • Beat the butter until white and fluffy.
  • Add custard and condensed milk alternating spoon by spoon. Whisk until smooth.

Berry confit

  • Cook the blueberries with sugar until the sugar dissolves.
  • Mix the starch with water. Pour this mixture into the berries in a thin stream. Whisk quickly.
  • Cook for a minute. Cool in the fridge.

Cake assembly

  • Grease each pastry layer with custard.
  • Alternate these layers, adding some confit over several custard layers.
  • Grease the sides and the top of the cake with custard and sprinkle with pastry crumbs.
  • Let the cake stabilize in the fridge.