America's Culinary Cup
Baker:
Season:
Week:
Challenge Type:
Blue Cheese Mille-Feuille
Cara's 'evil' dessert built around her forbidden ingredient, blue cheese — a classic French mille-feuille made with from-scratch puff pastry in six hours.
Cara: "The first thing I think of with blue cheese is a classic French dessert. It's called mille feuille. It's layers of puff pastry on layers of puff pastry mixed with pastry cream. The blue cheese would lend itself well because it will be sweet, but not too sweet."
Padma noted there was puff pastry already in the pantry, but Cara declined: "I can't do that. It's a pastry challenge." Cara on the risk: "Puff pastry takes a tremendous amount of time and energy and precision to do correctly." On presentation she said it is "evil because it is decadent and rich."
Nina Métayer (guest): "To make puff pastry — I know it's a lot of work, and you made it very well. So congratulations for that. And the blue cheese is very nice. I love it."
Wylie Dufresne: "The fact that you made puff pastry from scratch in six hours — that alone is something we'll be talking about throughout the competition. No complaints. Really good."
Michael Cimarusti: "This dessert is evil. I don't want to be good because I really loved it."
Padma Lakshmi: "I like that you had the confidence just to put a few chunks of blue cheese in that pastry cream."
Would you like us to create a recipe to match this dish?
We try to create several recipes every day, and we'd love to prioritize a recipe for you. Just fill out the form and watch your inbox - no cost, no catch.
Your request has been submitted
An error occurred. Try again later
