Shortbread cake with prunes

Shortbread cake with prunes

For 6 people


  • For the pastry:
  • 300 gr. flour
  • 150 gr. butter softened
  • 150 gr. brown sugar
  • 20 gr. butter for molds
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 2 pinches of salt
     
  • For the cream of prunes:
  • 450 gr. pitted prunes
  • 2 tsp. tablespoons cognac
  • 1 tea bag
     
  • For the whipped cream:
  • 25 cl. fluid cream
  • 1 packet of vanilla sugar

 

40 mn.
30 mn.env. 200°C.(th.6-7)/400-425°F

 


 

 

  1. Please inflate prunes in 30 cl. hot tea and brandy.
    Whisk in a bowl of very cold cream whipped. Add the vanilla sugar just the end of the operation. Reserve in refrigerator.
     
  2. Mix quickly with fingertips ingredients of the dough to obtain a crumbly consistency. (see the text broken pastry dough) Cover the dough and put it in the refrigerator.
    Preheat oven to 200 ° C. (th.6-7)
     
  3. Crumble half of the dough into two pie removable bottom, to get two discs of 5 mm. thick and grainy consistency.
    Bake for 15 minutes. When golden, remove them and unmould them with care so as not to break them. Book it.
     
  4. Do the same with the rest of dough for a second tour, but the notch (without cutting) on the last disc to mark 6 or 12 shares, prior to cooking.
    Mix the prunes with their juice into mashed very fine. Assemble the cake as well: the first disc Spread 1 / 3 of pureed prunes mixed. Then, using a piping bag cover with whipped cream. Keep up with the other 2 discs, complete by 4 th divided into shares. Serve immediately.