Diamond Jubilee Recipe - Strawberries and Cream Pie



Jubilee Strawberry and Cream Pie

To Commemorate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee
1952 -2012

  

I felt that I had to do something a bit special for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. After a bit of thought I decided to put my own spin on the traditional British cream tea - scones with jam and cream.

Pastry:

I decided to make 'pastry' which is a bit more like a scone mix - so that the pie reflects the cream tea theme a bit more.

Ingredients:

125g of self raising flour
A pinch of salt
55g of butter
25g of caster sugar
30-45ml of milk

What to do:

• Put the flour and salt in a large bowl
• Rub in the butter until the mixture resembles bread crumbs.
• Stir in the sugar and the milk until it resembles a dough that can be rolled out.
• Prepare oven dish/pan
• Roll out the dough to fit the pan.
• Roll out the left over dough and cut six long strips.
• Make the rim of the pie by making two plaits using three of the strips for each.
• Paint the pie with milk using a pastry brush - the milk acts like a glue to help attach the plaits
• Paint the plaits with milk
• (If you want to make a little crown shape out of pastry to cover the plaits join at the top like me you can... but it may end up looking more like a bobble hat...)

Alternatively, make mini pies using a cupcake tray to shape them.

Place pie crust in the oven

Cook at 180 degrees C for proximately 15 mins.

Allow to cool.

Filling:

Ingredients:

Strawberry or Raspberry Jam (Jelly)
200g of cream cheese
100g of caster sugar
A few drops of vanilla essence
Strawberries

What to do: 

• When cool turn the pastry out of the pan
• Spread a layer of jam (jelly) over the base of the pastry
• Now mix the cream cheese, caster sugar and the vanilla essence together.
• Spread a thick layer of the cream cheese topping over the layer of jam
• Decorate with a layer of fresh strawberries.
• Place in the fridge to cool.
• Serve and enjoy the jubilee celebrations!

  

A few pictures from our walk around the park today where we saw lots of birds and jubilee celebration bunting: