Cook, Care & Share with Kate

This month’s recipe for our Cook, Care & Share project is Strawberry Cream Puffs (well, it is Wimbledon month!). All the ingredients you need are listed below.

In our demo video, local chef Kate talks you through all the steps, including making your own puff pastry from scratch – though shop-bought is fine too.

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Next month, we’ll be making something orange and delicious as 20th August is International Orangutan Day. Check out what’s in store for August.

Strawberry and cream puffs ingredients:

1 block of puff pastry

125ml double cream

1 bowl of fresh strawberries

1 egg

Small amount of caster sugar

Equipment:

Biscuit cutter

Pastry brush

Rolling pin

Knife

Baking tray

Fork

Mixing bowl

Whisk

If you wish to make the puff pasty yourself here are the ingredients you will need.  Rest assured that using ready-made pastry is fine!

Puff pastry from scratch ingredients

When making puff pastry, the proportions are 3/4 fat to flour.

200g Plain flour

150g Fat (75g lard, 75g

margarine)

Pinch salt

Cold water

Equipment:

Mixing bowl

Scales

Rolling pin

Palette / butter knife

Measuring jug

Flour shaker

palette knife

Baking tray

Cling film