Vanilla Hearts
A classic Swedish pastry filled with delicious custard. They're a bit fiddly to make, but it's totally worth it - they will taste just like in a Swedish konditori coffee house.
Makes 16 vanilla hearts
Dough:
450 ml wheat flour
150 ml icing sugar (florsocker)
50 ml potato starch (potatismjöl)
1 spice measure vanilla sugar (vaniljsocker)
1 spice measure salt
200 g butter
1 egg yolk
1 tbsp cold water
Custard:
400 ml milk
2 egg yolks
50 ml granulated white sugar
1 spice measure vanilla sugar
50 ml corn starch
50 ml icing sugar
Method:
Mix the dry ingredienets for the dough.
Cut the butter into cubes. Add the egg yolds and water and mix to a dough. Leave to rest in the fridge for 30 min.
Whisk the ingredients for the custard in a pan, cook on low heat while whisking until thickened. Take off the heat and leave to cool.
Turn the oven on to 200 c degrees.
Roll out the dough. Using Vanilla Heart moulds cut out 32 hearts. Press out half of the dough from the moulds and spoon custard in to the hearts that are still in the moulds.
Place the other half of the heart shaped doughs on top and press the sides together.
Place the heart moulds on on an proof tray and bake in the middle of the oven for approx. 12 minutes.
Leave to cool before tipping the pastries out of the molds. Spinkle icing sugar on top before serving.