Dulce de Leche Flakies. So very easy to make using grocery store frozen puff pastry and just a couple of other basic ingredients. Sure to impress!
Dulce de Leche Flakies.
Well, here I go again. I keep coming up with new ways to serve this incredibly popular pastry dessert here on Rock Recipes.
It’s similar to our carmel version, but uses what’s known locally as cooked caramel, but is more akin to Dulce de Leche. It also doesn’t contain buttercream frosting as our version if the Vachoon favourite includes.
This batch puffed up beautifully!
This one uses a simple vanilla whipped cream instead. The Dulce de Leche brings enough sweetness all on it’s own.
Dulce de Leche literally translates as “sweet of milk” and had been popular in South American desserts for a very long time. One legend says a maid left a pot of milk and sugar on the stove too long and accidentally invented it!
I don’t know if that is true, it sounds more like a bit if a tall tale, you tell children.
I like to use coarse turbinado sugar for a sweet crunch on top, but it’s optional.
Bake until golden brown.
The Dulce de Leche is so very easy to prepare.
My own experience if Dulce de Leche.
As I have written before, it was back in the late 80’s early 90’s that I first learned of the method of boiling a can of sweetened condensed milk to produce this sthick sweet confection.
It was on trips to Bonavista North with friends that I first sampled what locally were known as Caramel Tarts. I have since made my own mini versions of that idea, which are very popular around here as well.
Still years later, watching many British baking programs, I discovered it was very commonly used in a favourite British dessert, Banoffee Pie.
That one quickly became popular with my kids and their friends growing up, and is still a family favourite.
So, I thought, since all those other recipes have been so popular, and our Flaike recipe versions are just as popular, why not combine the two!
They were an immediate hit with friends we shared them with as well, and a couple fo them have already replicated the recipe at home.
I think they make a great summer hand held dessert at BBQ’s and cookouts. If you need a take along dessert for a pot luck dinner or coffee day at work, these are relatively low effort and are sure to be the first to disappear!
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Dulce de Leche Flakies
Dulce de Leche Flakies. So very easy to make using grocery store frozen puff pastry and just a couple of other basic ingredients. Sure to impress!.
Ingredients
For the pastry
- Two 12 inch square sheets puff pastry
- Granulated or coarse sugar (optional)
- 1 egg + 1 tbsp water, (to make an egg wash
For the filling
- 1 can Dulce de Leche (See link to recipe in in Notes)
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 2 rounded tbsp icing sugar, (powdered sugar)
- 1 /2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Whisk the egg and water together to make an egg wash.
- Lay out one of the sheet of puff pastry on a parchment paper lined baking sheet
and lightly brush it with the egg wash. - Lay the second sheet of puff pastry on top and chill in the freezer for 10-15
minutes. This will make the pastry easier to cut evenly. - Using a very sharp knife, trim the edges square, then cut the pastry into 9 squares
(or 16 squares for a mini version.) - Spread the squares out a couple of inches apart on a parchment paper lined baking
sheet. - Lightly brush the tops with the egg was h and then sprinkle granulated or coarse sugar over
the tops (optional). - Bake for about 15-20 minutes at 400 degrees F until evenly golden brown. Cool on
a wire rack.
You will need to make and cool the Dulce De Leche first, which is best done the day before. See link in Notes.
To prepare the pastry
To prepare the Vanilla Whipped Cream
- Just whip together the whipping cream, vanilla and icing sugar to firm peaks.
To assemble the pastries.
- With a sharp serrated knife, cut each of the baked pastries in half horizontally.
- Spread a rounded tablespoon of the dulce de leche on the bottom pastry portion.
- Pipe or spoon the prepared whipped cream on the other half of the pastry before bringing the two halves together.
- Store in an airtight plastic container in the refrigerator.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Yield
9Serving Size
1 large pastryAmount Per Serving Calories 521Total Fat 33gSaturated Fat 12gUnsaturated Fat 22gCholesterol 67mgSodium 198mgCarbohydrates 49gFiber 1gSugar 26gProtein 9g
The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.