Poppy Crescents
Ingrediënten
Ingredients for about 30 Pieces
- Basic Danish pastry dough
- Flour for the work surface
- Butter for brushing
- Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
For the Filling
- 150 ml Milk
- 15 g Honey
- 60 g Granulated sugar
- 10 gVanilla sugar
- Dash of cinnamon
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 2 cl Rum
- 200 g Poppy seed ground
- 100 g Breadcrumbs or sponge cake crumbs
- 120 g Couverture white chocolate
Instructies
- Prepare the basic Danish pastry dough.
- Preheat oven to 400 °F (200 °C).
- For the filling, mix the poppy seeds with the breadcrumbs.
- Boil the milk with honey, granulated sugar, vanilla sugar, rum, lemon zest, and cinnamon, then remove from heat and mix in the breadcrumb mixture.
- Melt the chocolate, mix in, and let the whole thing cool.
- Roll out the pastry dough on a floured work surface and cut into tall triangles.
- Spread on the poppy filling, roll up, and form crescents.
- Brush with melted butter and place on a buttered baking sheet.
- Bake at 400 °F (200 °C) at first and then lower to 340 °F (170 °C) and bake for about 15 minutes.
- Dust with confectioner’s sugar.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
Poppy crescents taste even better when they are brushed with apricot marmalade after baking and glazed with some warm fondant.