Giant Pear & Blackcurrant Dahlia
Pear / blackcurrant / almond
A giant flower, a purple heart under each petal.
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9 detailed steps, from preparation to service.
Make the dough
Mix 230 g of flour and 40 g of icing sugar. Add 110 g of cold diced butter and rub with your fingertips until you get a sand. Beat 1 egg in a bowl, add it with 15 ml of cold water and then collect without kneading.
Cooling and spreading
Flatten the dough, wrap it and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Spread it on 3 mm between two sheets of baking paper. Garnish the mold 24 cm, remove the upper paper, cut the surplus and prick the bottom with the fork. Refrigerate the mold for 15 minutes.
Prepare the cream
Preheat the oven to 175°C rotating heat. Mix 70 g soft butter with 70 g sugar spatula. Break the second egg into a bowl, beat it and then incorporate it. Add 70 g of ground almonds and mix until a homogeneous cream is obtained.
Set up the purple heart
Spread the 120 g of blackcurrant jam on the raw bottom. Spread the almond cream in small spoonfuls and then gently smooth to preserve a layer of blackcurrant underneath.
Cut the petals
Peel the 4 pears, cut them in half and remove the kidneys with a spoon. Put each half cut face down. Cut into thin slices of about 2 mm in width; keep the small slices for center.
Drawing the Dahlia
Inserts very slightly inclined pear slices into the cream, in concentric crowns, points outward. Ride each slice on the previous one in half. Start at the edge and tightens the ranks to the center. The slices remain low and supported by the trim; do not raise them vertically.
Cook the flower
Bake for 35 to 40 minutes in the middle of the oven. The dough should be golden and the cream caught between the pears. If the tips color too fast, put a sheet of baking paper on top without pressing.
Shine
Let the pie cool for 30 minutes. Heat 20 g of apricot jam with 10 ml of water for 30 seconds. Pass this brush on the pears without filling the hollows. Unmold when the dough is firm enough.
Serve the cutting
Presents the whole dahlia then cuts with a sharp knife to show the fine purple layer under the almond cream. Use a pie shovel to support the parts.
Conservation. 2 days in refrigerator, well covered; take out 20 minutes before serving.
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Baking tips for this recipe
- Preheat the oven according to the plug and prepare the mold before mixing the last ingredients.
- Uses the dimensions and cooking mode indicated: a higher or wider mold changes the cooking of the center.
- Follow the visual cues of step by step in addition to the duration. Respect the intended cooling before unmoulding or decorating.
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