Pastelito de mil hojas (thousand leaf cakes)

Ingredients for Pastelito de mil hojas (thousand leaf cakes)

Instructions for Pastelito de mil hojas (thousand leaf cakes)

To prepare the Pastelito de mil hojas (thousand leaf cakes) recipe, please follow these instructions:

Dough: Smulder flour, butter and salt in a bowl and add lemon juice and egg yolks. Came the cold water in a little at a time and knead the dough together until it is uniform and smooth. Put a dishtowel over the dough and let it rest for ½ hour in a cold place.

Roll the dough out into a rectangle, which is 80 x 80 cm. Brush a layer of half-melted butter and sprinkle a little flour on. Smooth the flour out of the Palm of your hand so that it is absorbed by butter. Put the dough double. Butter dough as before and fold it together, this is done in a total of 3 times to dough measuring 20 x 20 cm.

Roll the dough out again for 40 x 40 cm. make sure that the dough does not hang in the table. Cut the edge with a knife, so the dough is completely square. Cut the pieces out of the 36.

Finally, the jam up with Quince wine tubes and put a teaspoon. on each of the 18 squares. Place the other squares tilted over to form a star with 8 points. Squeeze the dough well together on the filling and form the dough into flowers.

Syrup: Boil sugar and water for as long as the formation of threads of sugar when it onto a little sugar into the ice cold water. Take Pan away from heat and came in vanilleekstrakt. Put a lid on and keep glaze warm while the cakes fried.

Use 2 pots for deep frying. Came first a layer of flowers in one pan and when they begin to swell, but before they are Brown, they are moved by means of a slotted spoon over in the other pot, where the fat is hotter. Let them drain on several layers of fat sucking household paper (paper towel)

Dip them in sugar bed sheet and put them immediately on a serving dish.

Tips:
These pastelitos can also be used with meat or seafood-filled and served as a small appetizer. They must not, of course, glaseres