Recipe #5389

Clementine Napoleons

Preparation: 35 min
Marinating/Waiting: 0 min
Cooking: 15 min
Total: 50 min
8
servings
Category: Desserts
Subcategory: Pastries/Treats
Source: Académie Culinaire

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Recipe ingredients

  • 13 oz. (400 g) frozen commercial puff pastry, thawed
  • 4 clementines, peeled and separated into supremes
  • 5 Tbsp. (75 mL) whipped cream
  • Custard
  • 3 egg* yolks
  • 3 Tbsp. (45 mL) cornstarch*
  • 1 cup (250 mL) milk
  • 1 cup (250 mL) table cream 15% m.f.
  • ⅓ (80 mL) sugar*
  • 1 Tbsp. (15 mL) Grand Marnier
  • 1 clementine, zest only
  • Icing Clementine coulis
  • 8 Tbsp. (120 mL) butter* 20 clementine supremes
  • Pinch of salt
  • 2½ cups (625 mL) icing sugar*
  • 2 – 4 Tbsp. (30 – 60 mL) clementine juice
  • ½ tsp. (2 mL) Irresistibles vanilla*
  • Clementine coulis
  • 20 clementine supremes

Preparation

Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
Roll out puff pastry on a lightly floured surface and cut into 16 rectangles 1¾ in. x 3 in. (4 cm x 8 cm).
Transfer to a baking sheet and bake until golden brown. Cool.
Custard
In a bowl, beat egg yolks and cornstarch together. Set aside.
Combine milk, cream and sugar in a pot and bring to a boil over medium heat. Whisk and remove from heat.
Whisk 1 cup (250 mL) of the milk-cream mixture into the egg yolks.
Return to the pot and continue cooking until mixture bubbles. Remove from heat.
Stir in Grand Marnier and zest. Cover custard, laying plastic wrap directly on it, to prevent a skin from forming, and cool.
Assembling Napoleons
When custard has cooled, assemble Napoleons
Spread 8 puff pastry rectangles with 3 Tbsp. (45 mL) each of custard.
Add a few clementine supremes and top with another rectangle.
Place 8 Napoleons side by side to ice them.
Using a fork, dribble lines of icing in lines on Napoleons.
Gently lay a few supremes on top.
Decorate each Napoleon with a piped whipped cream rosette.
Serve with clementine coulis. 
Icing Clementine coulis 
Cream butter and add salt. 
Add icing sugar and juice, alternately. Add vanilla.
Beat until smooth.
Clentine coulis
Purée in a blender

Suggestion

Clementine zest can be used to flavour any number of dishes. However before zesting clementines, wash them thoroughly to remove the wax coating that protects them from mould so that they keep longer.
Recipe by Académie Culinaire

* We recommend Selection and Irresistibles products.

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