Cake with Berries

Cake with Berries

The cake with berries is a delicious and elegant dessert consists of a "basket" of fragrant pastry containing a delicious custard filling with berries .
Ingredients for the pastry:

- 120gr flour ;
- lemon - peel ;
-1 Egg ;
- vanillin ;
- 50 Grams powdered sugar ;
- 60 G butter .

Ingredients for the cream:

- 200 Ml milk;
- 3 Egg yolks ;
- 70 G sugar ;
- 20 Gr flour ;


- 500 Gr mix of strawberries , blackberries, blueberries , currants and raspberries.

First prepare the custard and leave it to cool. Then heat the milk in a saucepan , adding the sugar and the lemon zest. Then incorporate the egg yolks and then pour in the flour , stirring constantly without making lumps. Bring it to boil and thicken. Then add the berries.

Now prepare the pastry by mixing all the ingredients together , working it vigorously for a few minutes. Wrap the dough with a plastic wrap and let it rest in the refrigerator for a half an hour. 
Meanwhile butter and flour the tart mold. then cover with the pastry . Perforate with the tines of a fork and bake at 180 ° for 20 minutes. Take out of the oven the base and fill it with the custard with berries .

Decorate and garnish with some berries dusted with confectioner's sugar icing .

Serves : 8 people ;

Preparation time : 1 hour ;

Difficulty: medium .