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Krémes (krémes)

Hungarian puff pastry dessert filled with a thick vanilla custard, dusted with icing sugar. Very popular in Budapest pastry shops, it is best eaten fresh, the crisp pastry contrasting with the smooth cream.

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Ingredients

Ingredients

Crème pâtissière

Optional extras

Nutrition facts

460 kcal per serving

Protein
7.6 g
Carbohydrates
59.9 g
of which sugars
26.6 g
Fat
20.4 g
of which saturated fat
9 g
Fiber
1.4 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200 °C, unroll the puff pastry on a tray lined with baking paper, then prick it with a fork.
  2. Bake the pastry for 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown, then let it cool and cut two rectangles to the size of your tin.
  3. Heat the milk with the split vanilla pod or the extract, then keep it warm.
  4. Whisk the yolks with the sugar, flour, cornstarch and salt until smooth.
  5. Pour the hot milk over the yolks while whisking, return everything to the pan and thicken over medium heat, stirring constantly for about 3 minutes.
  6. Take off the heat, add the butter, mix and let the cream cool for a few minutes, covering it with cling film pressed onto the surface.
  7. Place one pastry rectangle in a tin, spread the cream over it, top with the second rectangle and chill for at least 2 hours.
  8. Cut into squares and dust generously with icing sugar just before serving.

Variations and tips

Lemon version. Add the zest of an untreated lemon to the hot milk for a fresher-tasting cream.

More ideas

Original Ecomely recipe.