Baker Street Large Sponge Flan Case, 200 g

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Otherwise, you will not be able to extract any of the fruity flavour from the strawberries. As you know, when strawberries aren't in season, sometimes it's the case that the strawberries are really bland and have no flavour at all.

Serve this fruit flan as is. It’s flavourful and needs nothing more but if you must have something, a little unsweetened whipped cream would do the job. Place eggs, sugar and butter into a large bowl and mix together with a blender until fluffy, which should take about 3 minutes. Secondly, while mum might work in ounces, I actually grew up using grams so I’ve shown both measures in the recipe. Sadly, 2-55-55-1 doesn’t have quite the same ring to it, though. 🙂 If you’re a true strawberry lover, you’ll love this Strawberry Almond Tartor Strawberry Crumb Cake, and this Homemade Strawberry Milk too.Jeremy Gilboy, Founder of the St Pierre Groupe, said: “This new range is a particularly exciting addition to the Baker Street range as a step into a new category for the brand and it makes producing fabulous desserts easy as pie for consumers to look like patisserie pros.” However, if you are attempting this recipe in the late spring or summer months, then you are in for a treat. Go for strawberries which have a dark red colour. Avoid the pink / greenish ones as these aren't ripe enough. Also, avoid strawberries which are turning brown. These are not good anymore. Bake the cake mixture in a regular 8 inch cake tin. When it is cold, use a small plate as a template to cut a circle out of the top. Excavate this to a depth of about 1.5 cm (¾ inch), being very careful not to break through the edge. Then fill and serve as per the recipe. This is essentially a flan, although of course you will be shortchanged on the cake part slightly!

This kind of flan is popular in Germany and other parts of Europe. In Germany it’s known as Obsttorte or Obstboden. When is a flan not a flan? St Pierre Groupe has expanded its Baker Street brand into the Home Baking category with the launch of new Sponge Flan Cases and Sponge Cake Layers. If you've made a large batch of the homemade strawberry curd, you can also use it as a topping for other recipes. For example, add it into your yogurt or pour it over your morning porridge. Whatever you desire! best toppings for strawberry flan Having rediscovered my flan tin, I wondered what I should use to fill my tasty vanilla sponge flan case.

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I doubt you would have enough left to freeze anyway. Since this is so light, you can serve up largish portions of this and still feel like it was a light dessert. I get anywhere between 6-8 serves from mine. When the pastry case and custard have cooled down completely, fill the pastry case up to the brim with custard. Actually, my version of strawberry flan resembles those in Paris, which also have a base. However in the UK, a flan is also considered an open sweet pie. If you would like to make this strawberry flan as beautiful as possible, then prepare the fresh strawberries with care. Cut them up into delicate slices. Place the thin slices of fresh strawberry next to one another.

You can also layer the thin slices of strawberries and make the strawberry flan resemble a strawberry tart. This way, when guests cut inside the flan, they’ll be happy to find the lovely surprise inside, which is the flan filling. Both are available from CJ Lang and have a minimum guaranteed life of 60 days after hitting the Spar wholesaler’s depot.

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This kind of filled fruit flan is very different to the baked custard kind of flan that’s enjoyed in parts of South America, which is more like a French creme caramel.

Beautiful and summery, you seriously have to give this delicious strawberry sponge flan a go. You won’t regret it. More recipes you’ll love For this reason, I recommend filling the sponge cake flan case in advance of when you plan to serve your flan – even the night before is fine – and then chilling it in the fridge. You can add the strawberries and decorations and chill the whole thing, all ready to go. Alternatively, leave off the berries and decorations and add them just before serving. Last minute dessert If you wanted to make this parve (dairy free) you can also substitute non-dairy ‘cream cheese’ and it works perfectly well.

The ingredients for this strawberry cheesecake flan are quite straightforward. The flan case is basically a simple, all-in-one sponge cake. The cheesecake filling is simply cream cheese sweetened with a little sugar and flavoured with a squeeze of lemon. To enhance the fruity flavours, I also added a layer of sweet strawberry jam underneath the ‘cheesecake’ layer. You can choose to leave this out if you like but it did make it extra delicious! Strawberry cheesecake flan – ingredients Strawberry flan can’t be frozen. On freezing the chemical structure of both jelly and berries changes and it will become a soggy mess on thawing.