Easy Danish pastries
Sweet and fruity, these apricot and cherry Danish pastries are easy enough to throw together after work for a weeknight family dessert.
- 15 mins preparation
- 25 mins cooking
- Makes 16
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Ingredients
Easy Danish pastries
- 1 1/2 cup milk
- 2 tablespoon caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 egg yolks, plus 1 egg extra, beaten
- 1 tablespoon cornflour
- 4 sheets frozen puff pastry, thawed, quartered into squares
- 415 gram can apricot halves, drained
- 415 gram can pitted cherries, drained
- 4 cup apricot jam, warmed
Method
Easy Danish pastries
- 1In a medium saucepan, combine milk, half sugar and vanilla. Stir over medium heat until boiling point is reached (do not boil).
- 2In a medium heatproof bowl, whisk egg yolks, remaining sugar and cornflour together.
- 3Pour hot milk into egg mixture in a thin, steady stream, whisking constantly.
- 4Return mixture to a clean saucepan. Cook over a medium heat, stirring constantly, 5-6 minutes, until mixture boils and becomes thick (dropping consistency). Remove from heat. Cover surface with plastic wrap; cool.
- 5Preheat oven to very hot, 220°C. Lightly grease and line 2 oven trays with baking paper.
- 6Spread 1 tablespoon custard diagonally across each pastry square. Place two apricot halves or cherries on custard. Join opposite corners, overlapping in centre.
- 7Arrange on trays; brush with extra beaten egg. Bake 12-15 minutes. until crisp and golden. Brush with jam while hot.
- 8Serve warm or cold.
Notes
Cornflour stabilises the custard so it won't split over high heat.