This fresh strawberry pie recipe will rethink how you enjoy your favorite strawberry dessert! Traditionally strawberry pie is very sweet and syrupy, but this revisited recipe is made with fresh, wild strawberries, homemade cream and a delicious homemade French shortbread crust. You will need eggs, brown sugar, untreated lemons, salted butter, whole wheat flour, baking powder, mascarpone cheese, liquid cream and powdered sugar for this tasty recipe. Try this Tunisian orange cake next!
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- Eggs
- Brown sugar
- Lemons (untreated)
- Salted butter
- Whole wheat flour
- Baking powder
- Mascarpone cheese
- Liquid cream
- Powdered sugar
Strolling through the Marché d’Aligre in Paris this past weekend, we fell in love with these sweet, little wild strawberries. Hugo had been wanting to make a sweet strawberry recipe since strawberry season started here recently. If you’re in Paris, you can go pick your own strawberries here. The Marché d’Aligre has long been one of our favorite markets. Hugo brought me there when we first started dating for early morning oysters and white wine at the Baron Rouge in the market. This experience is such a treat.
Tips to make this the best recipe for fresh strawberry pie
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- Don’t worry about buttering the molds. There is already a lot of butter in the dough so it isn’t necessary to add any more!
- Use fresh, organic strawberries for this recipe for the best flavor and real food, pesticide-free, experience.
- Top with dried strawberries for a little extra flavor and texture.
- Serve with a shot of strawberry vodka for a little extra kick!
- Watch the video below to learn how to use a piping nozzle to make your whipped cream look exactly like we have in the photos.
Add your own twist
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- You can replace strawberries with raspberries to make fresh raspberry pie with shortbread & cream.
- We enjoyed this dessert just the 2 of us, so we prepared mini tarts and this recipe will teach you to make 8 f those. You can create one larger tart rather than 8 mini tarts if you like.
- You can add a layer of custard on top of the shortbread base before adding the whipped cream and strawberries for a little extra decadence. If you choose to add a layer of custard, we recommend you press slowly and firmly into the middle of the shortbread base, using a tablespoon, right after removing them from the oven (while they are still warm). This will create an indentation, aka. the perfect spot for a dollop of custard!
Wondering how to keep strawberries fresh.? We love the method in this video!
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Fresh Strawberry Pie with shortbread & cream
- Total Time: 55 mins
- Yield: For 8
Description
Learn to make this delicious French fresh strawberry pie with shortbread & cream recipe! Quick, easy and sure to become one of your favorite dessert recipes when missing Paris!
Ingredients
- For the dough:
- 3 egg yolks
- 2/3 cup of brown sugar
- Zest of a lemon
- 1.5 stick of soften salted butter (room temperature)
- 1.5 cup of whole wheat flour
- 1 tbsp of baking powder
- For the whipped cream:
- 1 cup of mascarpone
- 1 cup of liquid cream
- 3 tbsp of powdered sugar
- For the topping:
- 1 lbs. of small strawberries (washed and hulled)
- 2 tbsp of powdered pistachio
- 8 small leaves of fresh mint
Instructions
- Prepare the dough.
- Whisk egg yolks and brown sugar until you have a creamy mixture in the bowl of your stand mixer (5 minutes on medium speed with the whisk).
- Add the lemon zest and continue to whisk for another minute.
- Add the salted butter, cut into small cubes, and mix with a spatula until the mixture is combined and smooth.
- Sift the flour and the baking powder in another bowl.
- Add 2 tablespoons of the flour into the bowl of the butter mixture and mix with the spatula until it combines.
- Repeat the last step until the flour is totally combined.
- Wrap the dough in plastic film and put in the fridge for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 360°F (180°C).
- Remove the dough from the fridge.
- Put it on a sheet of lightly floured parchment paper.
- Roll with a rolling pin until the dough is 4 mm thick.
- Use 8 ring molds of 3in (or 3.5in) to cut the dough into 8 rings of dough.
- Put the rings on another sheet of parchment paper, on the baking tray. (Don’t remove the ring molds, cook the dough with them to keep the ring shape during cooking.)
- Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven and let the ring molds and the cookies rest on a grill until they are room temperature.
- While the cookies cool, pour the cream and mascarpone into the bowl of your stand mixer.
- Use the whisk to stir.
- Begin on low speed (1) and increase speed every 20 seconds until you reach the maximum speed (10 on our Kitchen Aid).
- Add 3 tbsp of powdered sugar and mix for another 30 seconds.
- Pour the whipped cream into a pastry bag with a large closed star piping nozzle and refrigerate.
- Remove the ring molds.
- Put a dollop of whipped cream in the middle of each shortbread base.
- Place strawberries around the cream.
- Sprinkle a half teaspoon of pistachio powder over each mini pie.
- Top each mini pie with a sprig of mint.
- Serve and enjoy.
- Prep Time: 35 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: French
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