Recipes: Treacle tart | Iced banana parfait with tuille biscuit

Treacle tart

Serves four

Ingredients

For the pastry:

400g plain flour

5g table salt

200g unsalted butter

100g icing sugar

Zest of 1 lemon

1 vanilla pod

2 egg yolks

2 whole eggs

For the treacle filling:

200g unsalted butter

3 eggs

75g double cream

10g salt

900g golden syrup

170g fresh brown breadcrumbs

Zest of 3 lemons

60ml lemon juice

Method

For the pastry, combine all dry ingredients with the butter, vanilla seeds, and lemon zest, then gradually add the eggs until the dough comes together. Place in a pastry baking tin.

For the filling, melt the butter to beurre noisette stage then pass through a sieve. Weigh out 115g and leave to cool. Warm the golden syrup then add the breadcrumbs. Whisk the eggs, cream and the salt together then add to the syrup with the lemon juice, zest and the beurre noisette. Bake on 150C for 40 to 50 minutes. Serve warm with ice cream.

Iced banana parfait with tuille biscuit

Serves four

Ingredients

For the parfait:

500g banana puree

150g double cream

4 egg yolks

75g caster sugar

1.5 tbsp water

25ml banana liqueur

For the tuille biscuit:

4 egg whites

200g caster sugar

100g plain flour

75g melted butter

Method

Warm through and reduce the banana puree to 250g and leave to cool. Bring the sugar and the water to 120C, meanwhile whisk the egg yolks until ribbon stage then slowly add the syrup and continue to whisk until the sabayon is cold.

Whisk the double cream and banana liqueur to soft peak then add the sabayon and the puree then freeze in a flat tray or suitable moulds until frozen.

For the tuille biscuit, melt butter and leave to cool. Whisk egg whites to stiff peaks then gradually add the sugar whilst whisking. Sift the flour and fold into the mix then add the butter. Refrigerate for two hours before use.

Serve with chocolate sorbet or warm chocolate sauce.

John Paul is executive chef at John Paul at The Marine, Macdonald Marine Hotel and Spa, Cromwell Road, North Berwick, 01620-897 300, www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/marine