Cold Squares

Posted by on Jul 25, 2009 in Desserts | 0 comments

Ingredients:

Pastry:

6 eggs
6 tbs sugar
6 tbs ground walnuts
6 tbs standard flour
3 tbs cacao
1 lemon’s grated rind
1tsp baking powder

Syrup:

300 g sugar
2cups water

Cream:

750 ml milk
12 tbs standard flour
3 tbs sugar
3 egg yolks
250 g unsalted margarine or butter
4 tbs icing sugar

Glazing:

100 g cooking chocolate
20 g unsalted margarine or butter
1 tbs milk

Preparation:

Pastry:

Beat eggs with sugar until smooth, then add the rest of ingredients, mix it and bake on 180-200 °C for approx. 20 min.

Cream:

Beat egg yolks, then add already mixed together flour and sugar. Add it gradually into boiling milk, stirring all the time that it wouldn’t clump. Cool it after it thickens. Separately beat margarine with icing sugar then mix it with cooled cream.

Chocolate glazing:

In a bowl above the hot steam melt and mix together chocolate, milk and margarine.

Pour syrup over cooled pastry, then spread the cream and glaze it with chocolate.  Refrigerate for couple of hours, then cut into squares with a knife dipped into a hot water and serve on a platter.

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