Coffee and cinnamon millefeuilles recipe
- 500 ml (17.6fl oz) milk
- 3 medium eggs
- 50 g (1.8oz) cornflour
- 100 ml (3.5fl oz) instant coffee
- 0.25 tsp ground cinnamon
- 200 g (7.1oz) golden caster sugar
- 1 pack of filo pastry
- 30 g (1.1oz) slightly salted butter
- 2 tbsp pure cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp ground cinnamon
- Take the milk to the boil in a saucepan.
- In a mixing bowl and using a whisk, beat the sugar and egg together until pale and fluffy.
- Add to it the corn flour, cinnamon and coffee; pour half of the hot milk over the egg mixture and beat very well before pouring back into the saucepan.
- Bring it back to the boil, stirring continuously.
- Cover with kitchen film and leave to cool.
- Preheat the oven to 200C.
- Melt the butter in a small saucepan.
- Cut the filo pastry into 72 small rectangles, then brush each piece of pastry with the butter and dust with the cocoa powder and the cinnamon.
- Make little 'piles' of pastry (four layers to each pile) and gently move them onto a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Cover the pastry with another sheet of baking paper, and place another baking tray on the top.
- Bake for 10 minutes in the hot oven.
- Then gently remove the top tray and paper and bake for another 5 minutes.
- Leave to cool.
- To build the desserts: whisk the cold egg mix at a fast speed with an electric whisk to aerate it.
- Secure a piece of the pastry onto your serving plate with a bit of cream.
- Then using a piping bag or a small palette knife, spread a bit of cream on top of one pastry pile, then top with another pastry pile.
- Repeat until you've used three pastry piles per dessert.
- Dust with cocoa and icing sugar to serve.
eggs, cornflour, coffee, ground cinnamon, sugar, pack, butter, cocoa, ground cinnamon
Taken from www.lovefood.com/guide/recipes/20698/coffee-and-cinnamon-millefeuilles-recipe (may not work)