The 2010 November Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Simona of briciole. She
chose to challenge Daring Bakers to make pasta frolla for a crostata. She used her own experience as a source, as well as information from Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.
I love pasta frolla, or Mürbeteig how pasta frolla is called in German. I make it quite often. Sometimes by hand and sometimes I use a food processor. Recently I even made a short making of video – Mürbeteig ganz einfach.
For the Daring Baker Challenge I followed more or less the given recipe:
Version 1 of pasta frolla
90 g of Vanilla flavored sugar
235 g unbleached all-purpose flour
a pinch of salt
115 ] cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
grated zest of half a lemon
1 large egg and 1 large egg yolk, lightly beaten
For the filling I did go with pears and chocolate – a classic combination. I even made a sort of pastry cream containing William liqueur. As I did the crostata right after announcement I can’t remember the exact ingredients. I´m getting old. At least I made a picture of the finished Pear Chocolate Crostata. ;-)
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For the the recipe please head over to the Daring Kitchen Headquarter. There you will also find all the Crostate my fellow Daring Bakers made.
More entries and recipes in English.
Love the „clasic“…. pear and chocolate are simply delicious :)
Your crust looks perfect and pear and chocolate sounds so delicious. Lovely work on this challenge. Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Sehr schén und lecker! Mmmhhh, kann Ich bitte ein Stück haben?
Cheers,
Rosa
Gorgeous! Obviously I love the pear and chocolate combination :)
Your crostata looks beautiful! And pear and chocolate sounds like a great combination. Nice job on the challenge!
Beautiful flavor combination. I like that you used the pear liqueur in your pastry cream.
classic indeed
Pear and chocolate! Must try that. I used spiced apple pie filling. :)
I like the video a lot. Your jar of vanilla sugar looks a lot like mine. I was intrigued by your food processor: I had never seen one like that. Your crostata looks very nice: having made a chocolate and pear crostata myself, I totally agree with your choice of filling.
Pears and chocolate! Be still my beating heart – this sounds amazing Zorra!
This looks just so good. I love these little films you make, you’re really talented!
schon mal erwähnt, dass ich diesen Film liebe? Wenn mir der nächste Mürbteigversuche nicht gelingt, dann weiß ich auch nicht. :)
REPLY:
Freut mich wenn der Film gefällt und noch mehr freue ich mich, wenn er auch hilft. :-)