For the last Tuesday with Dorie this month, the recipe is Gateau Basque Fantasie. A fantasie is a dish not made strictly in accordance with tradition. Normally, a Gateau Basque is filled with pastry cream or cherry jam. Here, it is filled with lashings of fruit and nuts instead.
The filling ingredients that I used were fresh orange segments, orange juice, ginger, apples, red grapes, dried apricots and toasted almonds. I loved the bitterness of the orange, the crunch of the almonds, the chewiness of the apricots and the sweetness of the apples and grapes.
The pastry for this Gateau did not give me any hassles when making it, as experienced by some of my fellow Dorie bakers. Where I got grief with this Gateau was in unmoulding it from the cake tin in which it was baked. Up to that point, everything went to plan. Come unmoulding time, the gateau cracked, as is apparent in the photo at the top of this post. This did not detract one iota from the taste, but made it much more difficult to serve in an elegant manner.
To see what the others made this week and how they felt about it, visit the LYL section of the TWD website.
7 comments:
I loved this (used different fruits and nuts) but my pastry fell apart too!
I am glad you didn't have trouble with the stickiness of the dough! Yours looks great!
glad you liked this-- i did, too, and couldn't get enough top that crust!!
Sounds lovely - I can imagine the filling could have made the pastry fragile when removing from the mould but often that is the best sort of pastry!
Looks great.
That pastry was very tender but that's part of why it was so good. Your slice looks perfect.
I am glad that you liked this one. The crust was delicious.
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