Traditional Canadian dessert An interesting pie with a crispy crust and sweet stuffing. Perhaps, to someone it will seem too sugary and very sweet. In the filling of the pie - dried fruit, which insisted on cognac. The aroma of maple syrup complements the taste of dried fruits. I did not have enough acid in my taste. Perhaps, if desired, you need to add a spoonful of lemon juice and zest. An interesting recipe for shortcake. It is tender and fragile. However, for such a pie you need a lower form, and even better - a detachable one. Outwardly, the cake looks very elegant. Maple leaf can be replaced by any other application.
Ingredients:- Flour, wheat 300 g
- Sugar powder 70 g
- Salt 5 g
- Butter 180 g
- Eggs chicken 2 pcs.
- Black raisins 200g
- Dried apricots 20 g
- Cranberry dried 30 g
- Prunes 50g
- Cognac 100 ml
- Butter 40 g
- Sugar 50g
- Honey artificial 70 g
- Maple Syrup 100 ml
- Vanillin 4 g
- Apple vinegar 5 ml
- Salt 10 g
- Eggs chicken 1 pc.
- Step 1 To make a cake, you need to take flour, 2 yolks, butter, sugar powder, salt. For the filling: raisins, dried apricots, prunes, cranberries, cognac, artificial honey, maple syrup, vanillin, apple cider vinegar, salt, egg. It is advisable to take a low detachable shape.
- Step 2 Start with the filling. Dried fruits to wash. Pour water, bring to a boil. To merge the water. Fruit squeeze out.
- Step 3 Cut the dried apricots and prunes into small pieces. Fill the fruit with cognac. Close the food film, put it for 1.5 hours in the refrigerator. This can be done the day before baking.
- Step 4 Sift flour and powdered sugar. Add salt. Mix.
- Step 5 Cut the butter into pieces. Put in the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Step 6 In the food processor combine the ingredients in portions in the "pulsation" mode. A little dry mixture, a little oil, one by one to drive in two yolks. Add again in the same order, whisking in the same mode.
- Step 7 Remove the dough, knead it with hands and form a ball. The dough turns out very soft and elastic. Put it in the freezer for 1 hour.
- Step 8 Get the dough, warm it with your hands, lightly stirring. On a parchment paper, roll out the dough with a thin layer of 3.5 mm. Cut the dough in a circle 2 cm wider than the baking dish.
- Step 9 Lubricate the form with oil, put parchment paper on the bottom. Carefully transfer the dough into the mold by using the sheet on which it lies (turn over with the paper and gently put it into the mold). Stuff the dough on the bottom. Put the dough into the freezer for 30 minutes.
- Step 10 From the remains of the dough make a decoration for the pie - a maple leaf. Also put in the freezer.
- Step 11 In the meantime, prepare the filling. Mix the ingredients: soft butter, sugar, honey, maple syrup, vanillin, apple cider vinegar, salt.
- Step 12 Add the beaten egg to the mass. Again, mix everything.
- Step 13 Drain the cognac from the fruit mixture. Dry the fruit. Add to the sweet stuffing. To mix.
- Step 14 With a dough wrap the foil with a densely shiny side to the dough. Cover the beans so that the dough does not rise. Bake in preheated to 180 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Step 15 Carefully remove the foil and beans. Again put the cake to bake for 10 minutes until golden brown. Cool it down. While the cake is cooling down, bake a leaf-decoration to reddening.
- Step 16 Put the filling in the cake. Bake at 180 ° C for 20-25 minutes.
- Step 17 Take out the cake. Cool it down.
- Step 18 Carefully remove the cake from the mold. Decorate with a maple leaf. Serve for dessert for tea or coffee.