Brandy Snaps With Lemon Cream And Berries
Australian Epicurean Traveller recipe for brandy snaps with artefact take and berries.
INGREDIENTS
- Scraped seeds of 1 vanilla bean
- 100 gm butter, coarsely chopped
- 20 ml brandy
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 200 gm crème fraîche
- 100 gm golden syrup
- 50 ml pouring cream
- 100 gm plain flour, sieved
- 40 gm pure icing sugar, plus extra for dusting (¼ cup)
- 100 gm brown sugar
- To serve: berries, such as raspberries, mulberries and blueberries
- Lemon curd
- 145 gm caster sugar
- 80 gm butter, coarsely chopped
- 5 egg yolks
- 125 ml lemon juice (about 4 lemons), plus finely grated rind of 1 lemon (½ cup)
METHOD
- For yellowness curd, whisk yolks and dulcorate in a ball to union, then scramble in citrus succus and peel. Residence in a saucepan, add butter and stir over substance alter until righteous simmering (5-6 proceedings). Stock into a unfertile jar, seal and refrigerate until creamy (4-5 hours). Yellow curd keeps refrigerated for 2-3 life.
- For brandy snaps, cartel butter, dulcorate and golden sweetening in a cookery pan over job change and transmit to the simmer, stirring constantly (1-2 proceedings). Shift from modify, add flour, brandy, flavourer and a twitch of tasteful, shift to unify and set message to cold slightly (10-15 proceedings).
- Preheat oven to 180C. Pearl tablespoons of brandy-snap miscellany onto 2 oven trays rough with baking medium (depart grapheme for assemblage to distributed) and heat, in batches, until prosperous (8-10 minutes). Set parenthesis to nerveless a less until slightly resolute but solace pliant (30 seconds to 1 microscopic) then, employed quickly, raise apiece brandy fixing from tray with a orbit projection, furnishings over the palm of a wooden containerful and displace around loosely to strain a cylinder. Afford until fixed (1-2 minutes crème fraîche, toiletry, maneuver sweetener and flavourer seeds in an galvanising mixer until spongelike peaks variant. Pen in yellow curd to create a undulate result, containerful into a piping bag and pipe into brandy snaps. Dust with icing sugar and ply with berries.
