Baker Street Large Sponge Flan Case, 200 g

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If you would like to make this strawberry flan as beautiful as possible, then prepare the fresh strawberries with care. Cut them up into delicate slices. Place the thin slices of fresh strawberry next to one another.

If you are attempting this recipe in the winter months when strawberries are naturally off season, then take this advice – source your strawberries in a premium supermarket. Because of the shape of a flan tin, it’s nigh on impossible to line it with baking paper. To ensure that your flan case turns out nicely, I recommend coating the inside of the tin with ‘cake release’. There are different kinds available, either as a spray or as a liquid that you brush on. To enhance the fruity flavours, I also added a layer of sweet strawberry jam underneath the ‘cheesecake’ layer. You can choose to leave this out if you like but it did make it extra delicious! Strawberry cheesecake flan – ingredients Lush, ripe strawberries are all piled into a sponge flan case and topped with simple jelly to hold it all together. It’s vibrant, sweet, fresh and incredibly light.If you wanted to make this parve (dairy free) you can also substitute non-dairy ‘cream cheese’ and it works perfectly well. Another popular flan filling is a combination of cream or custard with fruit. The space in the flan case is first filled with whipped cream, creme patisserie (sometimes called confectioners custard), mousse, whipped custard or something similar. Then sliced or whole fruits are arranged on top. They can be covered with a sweet glaze, or just left plain. St Pierre Groupe has expanded its Baker Street brand into the Home Baking category with the launch of new Sponge Flan Cases and Sponge Cake Layers.

If you are going to make strawberry flan, then you will need to know how to select the right type of strawberries. Both are available from CJ Lang and have a minimum guaranteed life of 60 days after hitting the Spar wholesaler’s depot. Strawberries are one of my favourite fruits. Sweet, juicy but firm and so fresh, I have loads of recipes on this blog for the strawberry lover. This Strawberry sponge cake is an even more elegant version of the same flavours. Is it cake or tart?A favourite from my childhood, this strawberry flan recipe is extremely easy to make and great for entertaining too.

Make a pastry or crumb crust, and use this to hold the creamy cheesecake filling and strawberries. This is more like a pie than a flan, but still good! If you don’t have a flan tin, it’s still possible to make a version of this delicious dessert. You have a number of options. When the pastry case and custard have cooled down completely, fill the pastry case up to the brim with custard. Jeremy Gilboy, Founder of the St Pierre Groupe, said: “This new range is a particularly exciting addition to the Baker Street range as a step into a new category for the brand and it makes producing fabulous desserts easy as pie for consumers to look like patisserie pros.”The best toppings for a strawberry custard flan recipe obviously involve fresh fruit. Consider the following toppings: Bake the cake mixture in a regular 8 inch cake tin. When it is cold, use a small plate as a template to cut a circle out of the top. Excavate this to a depth of about 1.5 cm (¾ inch), being very careful not to break through the edge. Then fill and serve as per the recipe. This is essentially a flan, although of course you will be shortchanged on the cake part slightly! For this reason, I recommend filling the sponge cake flan case in advance of when you plan to serve your flan – even the night before is fine – and then chilling it in the fridge. You can add the strawberries and decorations and chill the whole thing, all ready to go. Alternatively, leave off the berries and decorations and add them just before serving. Last minute dessert I doubt you would have enough left to freeze anyway. Since this is so light, you can serve up largish portions of this and still feel like it was a light dessert. I get anywhere between 6-8 serves from mine.

This kind of filled fruit flan is very different to the baked custard kind of flan that’s enjoyed in parts of South America, which is more like a French creme caramel. Bake the cake mixture as two 8-inch sandwich cakes, and fill and top them with the jam, chilled cheesecake filling and strawberries. Also not a flan as such, but the same combination of flavours and textures.cake decorating kit - if you would like to take your cake decorating skills to the next level, then make sure you have this kit in your kitchen.