Millefeuille With Vanilla Cream And Chocolate Mousse

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 375 g puff pastry
• icing sugar, to serve
• 1 vanilla pod
• 284 ml double cream
• 40 g icing sugar, sifted
• 100 g dark chocolate, broken
• 75 g butter, cubed
• 3 medium eggs, separated
• 75 g caster sugar

Recipe

• 1 make vanilla cream by splitting open vanilla pod and removing seeds. add icing sugar. whip cream until stiff peaks form. fold through vanilla mixtures, refrigerate.
• 2 make chocolate mousse by melting butter and chocolate. remove from heat. cool slightly. beat egg yolks and sugar until pale and moussey. in a separate bowl mix egg whites until stiff. fold choclate mixture into egg yold mixture then fold in egg whites. cover and chill for at least 6 hours.
• 3 preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius.
• 4 cut pastry into 24 equal serving pieces.
• 5 place pastry on baking tray and bake 10-15 minutes until golden and puffed. leave to cool and flatten slightly.
• 6 to serve place piece pastry on each plate. add a layer of vanilla cream, another piece of pastry then chocolate mousse, top with another piece of pastry and dust with icing sugar.
• 7 serve with fresh fruit or berries.