HEART-SHAPED NAPOLEONS RECIPE
Nothing says "I love you" like a homemade dessert. Your sweetie will swoon over these heart-shaped Napoleons!
Provided by Cheryl Najafi
Categories Dessert
Time 1h15m
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- In a small saucepan, off the heat, whisk together the sugar, cornstarch, salt and egg yolks until a thick paste forms. Add milk and whisk until the paste is completely dissolved. Make extra sure that everything is dissolved before heating.
- Place saucepan over medium heat and slowly bring pudding to a bubble, stirring constantly with a whisk. Once the first bubble pops on the surface of the pudding, reduce heat to low and continue whisking for exactly 1 minute and then remove from heat.
- Stir in vanilla and butter until completely melted and incorporated then transfer into a clean bowl. Cover with plastic wrap so that the wrap is touching the pudding. This will prevent a thick skin from forming on the surface of the pudding. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until completely cooled.
- While the pudding is cooling, preheat oven to 400 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Unfold each sheet of puff pastry and pinch together seams where dough was folded. Dip heart-shaped cookie cutter into flour and cut as many as possible out of each sheet.
- Transfer hearts to prepared baking sheet and bake for 13-15 minutes or until lightly golden on top. Remove from oven and set aside to cool. Remove cooled pudding from refrigerator and whisk to soften and remove any lumps. Fold whipped cream (or whipped topping) into pudding and set aside.
- Add chocolate chips, ¼ cup heavy cream and honey to a microwave-safe bowl and heat for about 30 seconds. Stir to melt chocolate and combine thoroughly. Return to microwave for 10 seconds at a time as necessary just to melt chocolate. Stir ingredients into a smooth, glossy glaze.
- Use a sharp knife to split the puff pastry hearts in half horizontally then fill bottom half with pudding. Place the top of puff pastry over pudding and dust lightly with powdered sugar. Drizzle chocolate glaze over the hearts and serve or refrigerate up to 1 hour until ready to serve.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 407 kcal, Carbohydrate 44 g, Protein 7 g, Fat 24 g, SaturatedFat 13 g, Cholesterol 110 mg, Sodium 437 mg, Fiber 2 g, Sugar 22 g, UnsaturatedFat 5 g, ServingSize 1 serving
CLASSIC FRENCH NAPOLEONS
These Classic French Napoleons feature layers of flaky dough filled with silky vanilla pastry cream. It's a stunning (and surprisingly easy) dessert!
Provided by David
Categories Dessert
Time 1h3m
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 425°F.
- Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
- On a well-floured countertop, stack both pieces of thawed puff pastry on top of each other. Roll into a 12"x12" square. Cut into three equal 4"x12" rectangles. Prick the dough every 2 inches with a fork.
- Lay the rectangles onto the prepared baking sheet. Place a sheet of parchment paper on top of the rectangles. Next, place a second baking sheet directly on top of parchment paper. Set a large oven-safe dish on top of this second baking sheet in order to weigh it down. (Note: This step ensures that the pastry rectangles bake flat and do not puff up too much in the oven.)
- Bake rectangles at 425°F for 10 minutes.
- Remove the dish, extra baking sheet and top piece of parchment paper. Return the rectangles to the oven and bake for 6-8 more minutes, or until golden brown. Set baked rectangles aside to cool. (Note: The sheets will puff up in this last stage, but they will deflate again once baked.)
Nutrition Facts : Calories 602 kcal, Carbohydrate 85 g, Protein 12 g, Fat 46 g, SaturatedFat 16 g, TransFat 1 g, Cholesterol 224 mg, Sodium 252 mg, Fiber 1 g, Sugar 42 g, ServingSize 1 serving
STRAWBERRY NAPOLEONS
Flaky strips of puff pastry are layered with velvety homemade pastry cream and fresh berries in this easy Strawberry Napoleon dessert! Topped with vanilla icing, whipped cream and more fresh strawberries, get ready to serve up a gorgeously sophisticated treat.
Provided by Lindsay
Categories Dessert
Time 53m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 18
Steps:
- Add the egg yolks to a medium sized bowl and gently beat them together. Set aside.
- Add the sugar, cornstarch and milk to a large saucepan and mix until smooth.
- Cook, stirring continuously, over medium-high heat until mixture begins to thicken and bubble.
- Reduce heat to medium and simmer for 2 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Add a little bit of milk mixture to the egg yolks and whisk together, then add egg mixture to milk mixture. This process ensures that you don't scramble the egg yolks.
- Place the pan back on the heat and bring to a light boil. Allow to boil for 2 minutes, stirring continuously.
- Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth, then top with clear wrap that touches the top of the cream (it helps prevent a film from forming on top). Refrigerate until cool and ready to use.
- Remove the two sheets of puff pastry from the box and cut each set into 3 strips, for a total of 6 strips.
- Place on a baking sheet and bake for about 13 minutes.
- Remove them from the oven and allow to cool. Press the baked pastry down just a bit, if needed so they layers are relatively flat.
- To finish making the pastry cream, add the heavy whipping cream and powdered sugar to a large mixer bowl and whip until stiff peaks form.
- Gently fold the whipped cream into the pastry cream.
- To layer everything together, place a layer of puff pastry onto a serving plate and top it with some chopped strawberries.
- Pipe or spread some pastry cream on top of the berries, then repeat another layer of puff pastry, strawberries and pastry cream.
- Top off the pastry with a third pastry strip on top. Repeat the layering process with the remaining puff pastry, pastry cream and strawberries.
- To make the icing, add all ingredients to a small bowl and whisk until smooth. Spread the icing onto the top of the completed napoleons.
- To add the whipped cream topping, add the ingredients to a large mixer bowl and whisk until stiff peaks form.
- Pipe swirls of the whipped cream on top of the napoleons and top with a few additional chopped berries. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 Sice, Calories 340 calories, Sugar 35 g, Sodium 59 mg, Fat 17.5 g, SaturatedFat 9.2 g, TransFat 0.3 g, Carbohydrate 40.9 g, Fiber 0.5 g, Protein 5.7 g, Cholesterol 99.1 mg
NAPOLEONS
Golden puff pastry is layered with pastry cream and jam and then iced before being cut into bars.
Provided by Katherine
Categories Bread Yeast Bread Recipes
Time 2h
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Roll out three sheets of puff pastry, each to the same size and a thickness of 1/8 inch. Prick with a fork, and place on baking sheets.
- Bake in preheated oven until golden, about 10 minutes.
- In a medium bowl, combine cornstarch and 1/2 cup milk with fingers until smooth. Stir in cake flour and half the sugar. Beat in egg yolks. Set aside.
- In a saucepan over medium heat, bring remaining milk and remaining sugar to a rolling boil. Stir in egg yolk mixture; continue stirring and bring to a boil again. Remove from heat and stir in butter and vanilla. Let cool.
- In a small saucepan or in the microwave, heat the jam until runny.
- Place one sheet of pastry on a board. Spread with cooled pastry cream to a thickness of 1/2 inch. Place a second pastry sheet over the cream. Brush with fruit glaze. Spread remaining pastry cream over glaze. Top with final pastry sheet and gently compress layers, using a baking sheet to press.
- To make icing, beat together confectioners' sugar and lemon juice with enough of the egg whites to make a creamy consistency like that of a cream soup. Working quickly, color a small portion of the frosting with red food coloring. Frost the top and sides of the assembled pastry with white icing. Pipe parallel lines of red icing on top of dessert, then draw a pick or knife crosswise through icing to make the traditional design. Let icing set before cutting into bars.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 405.5 calories, Carbohydrate 60.5 g, Cholesterol 33.3 mg, Fat 16.4 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 5.6 g, SaturatedFat 4.8 g, Sodium 133.2 mg, Sugar 37.1 g
VANILLA CREAM NAPOLEONS
These bakery shop beauties are fun to recreate in your home kitchen, using frozen puff pastry sheet and pudding mix.
Provided by By Arlene Cummings
Categories Dessert
Time 40m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat oven to 400°F. Lightly spray 2 cookie sheets with cooking spray. On lightly floured surface, unfold pastry sheets. Cut each sheet into 3 strips along fold marks. Place on cookie sheet; prick lightly with fork all over strips. Repeat with remaining pastry sheet and second cookie sheet.
- Bake about 5 minutes. Prick surfaces of pastries with fork to prevent pastries from rising too much during baking. Bake 10 minutes longer or until golden brown. Remove pastries from cookie sheets; cool 10 to 15 minutes.
- In large bowl, beat pudding mix, 2 cups milk, vanilla and sour cream with electric mixer on medium speed until soft pudding forms. Cover; refrigerate 10 to 15 minutes.
- In small bowl, stir powdered sugar and 3 teaspoons milk. If icing is too thick, stir in another teaspoon milk until spreadable consistency.
- On 1 pastry layer, spread about 3/4 cup pudding. Repeat with another pastry layer and 3/4 cup pudding. Top with third pastry layer. Spread icing over top. Set aside. Repeat to make second dessert with remaining pastries, pudding and icing.
- In microwavable small bowl, microwave chocolate chips uncovered on High about 30 seconds or until chocolate can be stirred smooth. Drizzle chocolate back and forth across top of each dessert. Drag toothpick through chocolate and icing to create marbled appearance.
- Cut desserts into 2-inch slices. Cover; refrigerate until ready to serve.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 Serving
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