This is my second or third go with the danish pastries from the Baking with Julia book. And usually practice makes perfect but not so in this case. I believe the dough turned out well, but I may have forgotten the salt? And the confectioners cream was not cooked long enough leading to a thin filling which affected the pastry dough while cooking, making it a bit greaser/ oily instead of light and flaky. But everyone still managed to eat them and ask for them the next day (after they were long gone).
I made one half of the dough into the slices (below) and the other half I tried my hand at the various shapes (above) in the book, pinwheel being the least successful of all of them.
Despite this round being a less successful, I think the recipe is a solid one that rarely fails if one follows the directions. And it's definitely a recipe that looks more impressive than the effort required for it. Check out other bloggers take on this one at Tuesdays with Dorie.
And Rhiannon…
