Recipe: Disney Fountain View Bakery, Epoct Fruit Tulips with Pastry Cream

FRUIT TULIPS

FOR THE TULIP PASTE (DOUGH):
7 ounces butter, softened
12 ounces powdered sugar
10 ounces bread flour
7 egg whites
Dark chocolate, melted (for brushing inside of shells)
Pastry Cream (recipe follows)
Fresh fruit of your choice, chopped
Star Glaze (recipe follows)

Cream butter, powdered sugar and bread flour. Add egg whites, slowly. Spread thin round circles of the dough on greased and floured sheet tray(s).

Bake at 350 degrees F until golden brown. Then, set while hot over upside down coffee cups to dry.

Brush inside with dark chocolate. After brushing the inside of shells, add pastry cream. Top with fresh fruit and brush with Star Glaze.

PASTRY CREAM

1 quart milk, divided use
3 ounces corn starch
4 eggs
6 ounces sugar
4 ounces butter

Use part of milk and stir into cornstarch. Then, add eggs into corn starch mixture.

Boil the remainder of the milk together with the sugar and butter. Once it starts boiling, add corn starch mixture; stir until it thickens.

STAR GLAZE

Clear jelly (such as apricot or currant)
Water, as needed

In a saucepan, add some clear jelly; add a little water, bring to a boil.

Adapted from source: Disney Fountain View Bakery, Epcot