Pâte de Fruit
| Makes: About 85 bite size petit fours | Course: Dessert | Machine: Cooking machine | Total time (min.): 25 plus resting |
Pâte de fruit is French for "fruit paste" and is chewy in texture, combining the sweet and sour flavours of natural fruit juice. Popular varieties of pates de fruit include mango, passion fruit, quince, blackberry, pear and pineapple.
Ingredients
- 550g Sugar
- 40g Pectin
- 0.5L Fruit juice
- 180g Liquid glucose
- 100g Caster sugar
Tools
- Flexi Beater
- Colander
- Sieve
Method
- Mix the sugar into the pectin. Attach the Flexi Beater, add the sugar, pectin, juice and glucose to the mixing bowl. Heat to 100ºC on speed 1 using the pulse function. When the mixture starts to boil, set the time to 10 minutes and continue with the speed and t
- Line a 30 x 20 x 2.5cm tray with cling film, then carefully pour the syrup into the tray and leave to cool for at least 1 hour. When it is cooled, turn it out onto a chopping board, cut into 3cm cubes and then roll in caster sugar.
Variations
Passion Fruit:
- Squeeze 10 passion fruits to make 450ml of juice. Boil the juice with 50g of sugar, then pass it though the Colander & Sieve Attachment.
Apple:
- Instead of the purée use a 500ml of good apple juice, preferably pressed or freshly squeezed.
Redcurrant:
- Boil 450g of redcurrants with 75g of sugar.
Lime:
- Squeeze 10 limes to get 450ml of juice, then boil with 50g sugar.