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Berry Napolitaine

Berry Napolitaine – Guest Post by Ever Peckish

Berry Napolitaine is a beautiful dessert recipe offered by Ever Peckish from South Africa. Expect gorgeous photos, passion, love and detailed instructions below :).

About Us

We are Kurvin and Vinasha, the couple from the blog and Instagram page ever peckish. Originally from the beautiful island of Mauritius, we currently live in Cape Town in South Africa.

We met in Cape Town ten years ago and bonded over a shared passion for food. We have been cooking and baking together since!

The start of an Instagram page led us on a food styling and photography journey. We have recently started a blog – everpeckish.com, where we share our favourite recipes, with a Mauritian/ South African influence.

Berry Napolitaine

Recipe by Kurvin and Vinasha of Ever PeckishCourse: DessertCuisine: MauritianDifficulty: Easy
Servings

10-12

cookies
Prep time

1

hour 

15

minutes
Cooking time

15

minutes
Total time

1

hour 

30

minutes

This berry napolitaine recipe is inspired from a shortcake but instead of a scone we have made a Mauritian ‘napolitaine’.  A napolitaine is a jam sandwich cookie iced in a sugar glaze.  We hope you enjoy this recipe!

Ingredients

  • Napolitaine shortbread
  • 250 g all purpose/cake flour, sifted

  • 50 g mixed berry jam (or other)

  • 100 g icing sugar, sifted

  • 165 g butter unsalted

  • ¼ tsp salt

  • ¼ tsp lemon zest

  • Filling and Icing
  • 1 tbsp boiling water

  • Fresh strawberries and blueberries (or berries of your choice)

Directions

  • Pre-heat oven to 180°C.
  • Place the sifted flour, salt and lemon zest in a mixing bowl.
  • Cut the cold butter in small cubes and add to the flour bowl.
  • Rub in the butter with fingertips until a fine breadcrumb texture is achieved. Alternatively, add all the cookie ingredients to the bowl of a food processor and pulse until a breadcrumb texture is obtained.
  • Gather the mixture together into a ball and flatten to form a disc.
  • Roll out the disc between 2 pieces of wax/baking paper until it is 5-6 mm thick.
  • Cut out circles which are approximately 7 cm in diameter.
  • For half of the circles cut out a smaller circle around 4-5 cm, to form a ring (see pictures).
  • Place the circles and rings on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake for 15-18 minutes until very lightly golden.
  • Allow the cookies to cool completely.
  • To make the icing, mix the sifted (to break lumps) icing sugar and just enough boiling water (start with no more than 1 tbsp) until a thick, yet pourable glaze is obtained.
  • Using a large spoon, pour the glaze onto the rings over a cooling rack.
  • Allow the excess icing to drip and leave it dry.
  • In the meantime, spread jam onto the cookies.
  • Place the rings onto the jammed cookies.
  • Fill the cookie centres with the fresh berries.
Berry Napolitaine
Berry Napolitaine by Ever Peckish

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Berry Napolitaine
Berry Napolitaine by Ever Peckish

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