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Dulce de Leche Cream Horns

Dulce de Leche Cream Horns Dixie
Prep Time:
2h
Bake/Cook Time:
25m
Yield:
12 cream horns

With a flaky crust, a crunchy exterior and a cool and a cool and creamy filling, cream horns are have been a favorite treat for generations. Chef Eddy's Dulce de Leche Cream Horns start with a delicate, flaky puff pastry cone that’s filled with a dulce de leche flavored cream. Chef Eddy made these cream horns using cannoli tubes as they are easy to find, but cream horn molds can be used as well. If you are short on time, you can start with a store-bought puff pastry.

Ingredients

Homemade Pastry Dough

  • 2 cups bread flour or all-purpose flour*
  • 2 sticks (1 cup) cold unsalted butter
  • 1/2 cup ice cold water
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 large egg, for brushing
  • 1/4 cup Dixie Crystals Extra Fine Granulated Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon butter, melted for greasing molds

Finishing

*Spoon & Sweep method: Use a spoon to fill measuring cup with flour until required amount is obtained. Scooping measuring cup directly into flour bag will firmly pack flour resulting in too much flour required for recipe.

Directions

  1. If using store-bought puff pastry, jump to step 12. Place flour in a bowl, large enough to hold all remaining ingredients.
  2. Slice sticks of butter in 1/4-inch slices (1/2 tablespoon amounts) and toss in flour. Ensure that butter slices remain in separate slices. Place bowl with flour/butter in freezer.
  3. Mix ice cold water with salt and place in fridge.
  4. Remove ingredients after 15 minutes from freezer/refrigerator.
  5. Pour water into flour/butter mixture. Using a sturdy spatula or hands, press mixture quickly until ingredients “hang” together. Absolutely do not try to mix or smooth butter into dough, it is essential that butter pieces remain completely visible in dough. Total mixing time is about a minute and dough will look scarcely undermixed and very rough.
  6. Line a cookie sheet with plastic food wrap or parchment paper. Press dough into a 12 X 6-inch rectangle. Do not be worried about fact that dough will not look cohesive as butter pieces will be sticking out everywhere. Place in freezer for 15 minutes.
  7. Remove from freezer and fold chilled dough in thirds (like a letter).
  8. On a plastic or parchment paper lined surface roll dough into a 12 X 6-inch rectangle and fold once again in thirds as a letter. Butter pieces may have stuck to rolling pin a little and by now dough is slowly starting to visually look better. Place in freezer for 20 minutes.
  9. Rotate dough 90° (essentially, you will now roll dough in opposite direction of previous rolled direction).
  10. Roll dough again in a 12 X 6-inch rectangle and fold as a letter. Place in freezer for 20 minutes. Repeat rolling and well chilling procedure 3 more times. Before rolling, remember to rotate dough 90°, to ensure that dough is always rolled in opposite direction of previous roll.
  11. Allow dough to chill at least one hour (or overnight) in refrigerator covered with plastic food wrap.  
  12. About 20 minutes before rolling dough, place a jelly roll pan filled with ice cubes onto surface where dough will be rolled on. This will make work surface very cold which is ideal when this dough is rolled thinly. Preheat oven to 365°F.
  13. Beat egg and set aside along with a pastry brush and six greased cannoli tubes. Scatter sugar onto a dinner plate.
  14. Cut dough in half and leave one half in refrigerator.
  15. On chilled and lightly floured surface roll dough into a rectangle 14 X 9 inches. Cut dough in 1 1/2-inch-wide strips. Brush with a thin coat of beaten egg.
  16. Roll dough strip onto cannoli tube in a slightly overlapping manner around tube. Brush very thinly with beaten egg and dip top surface into granulated sugar.
  17. Place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet with sugar coated side facing up. Repeat with remaining dough.
  18. Place in oven and bake for about 25 minutes or until very deep golden brown. Do not under bake or puff pastry will be doughy.
  19. When finished baking, use oven mitts to remove cannoli tube while pastry is still very warm. Dough will stick to tubes once cooled.
  20. Let cream horn shells cool completely before filling. 
  21. In a very cold bowl whip cream, brown sugar, and dulce de leche to firm peaks.
  22. Fill a pastry bag with cream and fill center. Pipe a row of cream on surface.
Dixie Crystals Insight
  1. Select flour with 4 grams/protein on nutrition facts label.
  2. This pure butter puff pastry can be used for countless pastry applications. Professional pastry chefs use European style butter which is available in most grocery stores. It is the better type of butter to use as it contains less water and is therefore more pliable and easier to roll. In addition, it provides better flaking.

 

 

Chef Eddy made the cream horns

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