Michel richard's pastry eggs Recipe

 
                        Michel Richard's Pastry Eggs
 
 Recipe By     : Michel Richard/tpogue@idsonline.com
 Serving Size  : 1    Preparation Time :0:00
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   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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                         puff pastry  -- frozen
                         pastry cream
    2      cups          milk
      1/2  cup           sugar
           pinch         salt
                         vanilla bean  -- split
    5                    egg yolk
      1/3  cup           cornstarch
                         Glaze
 
 Roll out little circles of pastry leaving the two edges slightly thicker than
the sides. Sprinkle with sugar.
 Cook the pastry cream ingredients until it boils and is thick. Cool.
 Place a generous tablespoon or so of cream on the pastry dough and two apricot
halves so it looks like two egg yolks.
 Bake in 350F oven for 35 minutes.
 Brush pastry and apricots with a nice sweet apricot glaze. The baking takes the
sweetness out of the fresh apricots so you need this final step.
 
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 Per serving: 1147 Calories; 42g Fat (33% calories from fat); 30g Protein; 163g
Carbohydrate; 1130mg Cholesterol; 280mg Sodium