As I couldn't finished making it in a day,I kept it in the refrigerator and continued making the next day.Then I ran out of the pastry and there were still some fillings left.I then put the filling in small papercups and baked for 10 minutes.These I made it into our snacks for the day.
Recipe:
pastry
250 g Buttercup butter
450 g flour
25 g cornflour
1 egg yolk
few drops/teaspoons iced cold water
filling
4 egg whites
100 g dessicated coconut
100 g crushed cornflakes
485 g icing sugar
jam-any types
method
Sieve flour and cornflour into a mixing bowl.Add in the butter and egg yolk.Use finger tips to mix the ingredients like breadcrumbs.Add in cold water and make into a dough.Chilled in in the refrigerator for 30 minutes while you go make the filling.
Beat egg whites till stiff.Add in icing sugar .Beat till smooth and fluffy.Add in the dessicated coconut and crushed cornflakes.
Roll the pastry to 0.2 cm thick.Cut with pastry cutter to fill the paper cups inside the muffin tins.Spoon 1 teaspoon jam to the pastry.Add in the filling.
Heat oven to 190° C.Bake until it turns golden,about 15-20 minutes.
ORIGINAL RECIPE:
250 g Buttercup
450 g flour
25 g cornflour
1 egg yolk
few drops/teaspoons iced cold water
FILLING:
4 egg whites
200 g dessicated coconut
600 g icing sugar
Cherries for decoration
Jam-apricot or pineapple for the filling
30 paper cups
METHOD:
Sieve the flour and cornflour into a mixing bowl.Cut in buttercup.Add beaten egg yolk.Mix ingredients with finger tips.Add in cold water to make dough/pastry.chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Beat egg whites till stiff.Add in icing sugar.Beat till smooth and fluffy.Add in dessicated coconut.
Roll pastry to 0.2cm thick.Cut with pastry cutter to fit the paper cups.Put pastry into muffin tin.Spoon 1 teaspoon jam.Add in coconut filling.Decorate with cherry.
Heat oven to moderate to hot.Bake pie in the hot oven till golden 15-20 minutes.(Temp 375° F or 190° C)
Note:
Add on for the day was the agar-agar( below)
Layered agar-agar for the hot day today
Transparent agar-agar strains