
A mille feuille (also known as a vanilla slice or custard slice) is a great dessert to make in the summer, when there is an abundance of fresh fruits available. Our garden raspberries are ripening and the strawberries are sweet at this time of year, but the ingredient elevating this mille feuille to a super-dessert is the cream.
I really like the custard cream from this strawberry cream cake recipe, and while whipping the filling for this layered dessert, I had one of those rare (for me) eureka moments. White chocolate! Melted white chocolate in custard cream!

Jeanne from Cook Sister!, is hosting this month's Waiter, There’s Something In My…. event, and she's asking for berry recipes. I hope she likes this as much as my family did!
Summer Berry Mille Feuille
A selection of fruit/berries - I used strawberries, raspberries and blueberries
White chocolate cream, recipe below
3 puff pastry sheets, or flaky pasty can be used instead
For The Pastry
500g all butter puff pastry,
Icing sugar (powdered sugar)
Pre-heat the oven to 425°F (220°C).
Roll out the pastry out to a square measuring roughly 12" by 12" (30 x 30 cm). If you don't have a baking sheet that is the right size, you can cut the pastry into 3 strips and bake them on separate sheets.
Place the pastry onto a baking sheet and prick the surface all over with a fork. Brush with beaten egg and bake for 10-15 minutes until nicely browned.
Cut the pastry into 3 equal strips, you can take a couple of millimeters off the edges to make them neater if you want. Dust with icing sugar and caramelise the sugar under a hot grill, or use a kitchen blow torch as I did. Caramelise both sides. Store the pastry strips in an airtight container until ready to use.
White Chocolate Cream
1 cup double cream
½ cup custard, good quality if shop bought
5oz white chocolate, melted
Whip the cream to soft peaks, then whip in the custard.
Melt the white chocolate and when it has cooled, fold it into the cream.
To Assemble The Mille Feuille
On your serving dish, place one strip of pastry (saving the best looking one for the top) and spread a quarter of the cream over it. Sprinkle with your choice of fruits, I used strawberries, raspberries and blueberries. Spread with another quarter of the cream.
Lay another pastry sheet on top and repeat the cream/fruit filling. Top with the final sheet of pastry and dust heavily with icing sugar.
Place any leftover fruits around the edge and slice to serve.
(Printable Recipe)

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43 comments:
Wow, you have the number 1 spot covered for this beauty. Love the custard cream, I took the short cut.
wow... this is fantastic nic!!!!
I haven't made these since I lived in Europe. Why is that? I think I need to get some pastry and make these I have a bunch of strawberries waiting to be eaten. I am enjoying your site, just discovered it last week!
Stunning Nic! - it looks absolutely beautiful. I love the addition of white chocolate too - very yummy!
This looks absolutely stunning and delicious. What is the gorgeous flower in the photo?
I love the look of this, Nic - puff pastry and berries together sound like an amazing thing.
well that's just gorgeous, and i have a sneaking suspicion that it's absolutely delicious as well. kudos to you!
Oh my Nic, that looks 'almost' to good to eat.
Well done on such a mouth-watering beautiful picture.
What a gorgeous dessert - it looks like it was made with love.
Such a delightful summer dessert! I just love the colors in the photos Nic, beautiful!
Puff pastry with white chocolate custard and berries sounds so good!
That is just gorgeous!
SWOON....this is sheer torure Nic!! What a beautiful mille feuille (using the words for the first time)!!! I love your Eureka moment!!! Lost for words!!!
Wow oh wow this is absolutely perfecto!
Maria
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Nina - great minds and all that! I love that our desserts were so different, but equally yummy!
Aran - thanks!
Robin Sue - welcome and thanks! It's a great way to use up strawberries.
Alfie - thank you, you can't go wrong with white chocolate!
Jules - thanks! That is a nigella flower, but they are a bit like weeds in the fact that they have a tendency to seed and pop up everywhere!
Patricia - yes, it's quite a good combo!
Grace, Sue, Giz, LyB, Kevin and Ann - thank you all!!
Deeba - it's worth making one just to say the words 'mille feuille'!!!
Maria - thank you!
Oh, yum yum yum!!!! Those berries are abundant at the moment aren't they? and so hard to resist with a bit of chocolate. Beautiful photos too, as always.
Mmmmmmm.... Really good, proper millefeuilles are so hard to come by these days. Can I have yours, please?
Nic, this is one great looking mille feuille!
Love this! The white chocolate cream sounds dreamy!
That is just gorgeous! I absolutely love to eat desserts like this in the summer.
WOW - stunning! love the photos love the recipe even more! :D
btw, I'm organising an 'Eating with the Seasons' event! It would be great if you could take part, too!
http://maninas.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/event-announcement-eating-with-the-seasons/
that custard in particular - with cream and white chocolate - is genious! yummm god i want sth sweet now. your blog is a real temptation... and torture!
This is my kind of dessert.
Almost impossible to eat without getting in a mess!
The mille feuille looks stunning.
oh yum! very summery! i pass the waiter event this time as ours is deadly in winter season here hehehe...
I'm sorry, my brain stopped functioning when I read "white chocolate custard cream"...!
This is absolutely stunning - and I've been imagining the taste and literally drooling on ym keyboard. Love the nigella flowers too - they are perfect with this.
Thanks so much for a fantastic entry into this month's WTSIM - roundup to follow by week's end (I hope!!)
That really is stunning! And to think you got another incredible dessert out of the "leftovers" from this -- we should all have such lovely leftovers!
oh, this looks fab girl! I haven't made these ever, but I've eaten them before, and they are divine! maybe its just the pastry part that's a bit scary for me:)
btw, I'd love if you could cook something healthy for my event this month!:) it doesn't have to be super-healthy, just "healthier" version of a regular recipe...details on my blog. I'm already thinking how I can do that for this stunning reipe of yours!:)
if you ask me my most fav dessert in the world ... it'll have to be the mille fuille hands down !
I simply adore it, and wow ...your has white chocolate too. Very beautiful presentation . you've got my 10/10 for it ... now quick gimme a slice :p
Looks so refreshing and Summery!
Nic: That sounds great! Love fresh berries. I have given you an award, please drop by my blog to claim it! Much love - Raquel XO
Thank you all for your lovely comments!
This looks lovely! I love the crunch of mille feuilles and with berries yum!
Ahhhh, there're more than just something in your berry mille feuille! I am drooling here at my keyboard.
I love a good mille-feuilles and yours is splendid! The cream is so soft looking in contrast to the berries! Well done Nic!
Just thought I'd let you know I gave you a Yummy Blogger award.
Oh my, I wasn't lying when I said my brain shut down when I read about the white chocolate custard cream!! Sorry about that & you are now added :)
Oh, how lovely. Simply stunning and I bet it tastes amazing.
Wow! This looks like a slice of heaven. I'm so jealous that you have berries in your garden (whaaa!). Everything looks & sounds perfect - the only thing missing is my slice! Great job..
xoxox Amy
This looks so delicious. Oh my. Great use of white chocolate, too.
Loving your photos Nic....that dessert looks fab!
Just to let you know, I have tagged you, nip over to my blog and check it out!
We'd like to invite you to participate in our July berry recipe contest. All competitors will be placed on our blogroll, and the winner will receive a fun prize! Please email me, sophiekiblogger@gmail.com, if you're interested. Feel free to check out our blog for more details. (Click on my name in the message header link to visit our blog. :)
wow, could it get any better than this??!! it looks amazing Nic, and is surely picture-perfect!:)
Thank you everyone for all your lovely comments!
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