Vanilla-fruit baskets

Last evening my friend, Ildi and me created these miracle baskets. I filled them with the cream, Ildi decorated. :)

You could meet already a lot of different linzer pastry recipe on my blog. In all of them the rate of flour-butter-sugar was different. This time I worked with the classic linzer pasrty rate, with the 3:2:1 version. And of course, my favorite, the grated lemon zest didn't drop out either. Yammm!

Ingredients:
For the pastry:
30 dkg flour
20 dkg butter or marge
10 dkg castor sugar
1 egg yolks
1/2 lemon's zest

For the vanilla cream:
1 package vanilla pudding (dr. Oetker)
4 dl milk
4-5 tablespoon castor sugar
5 dkg butter

1. Knead the linzer pastry as usual. In a big bowl crumb the flour with the butter, add the caster sugar, vanilla sugar, egg yolks, lemon zest, mix the ingredients and knead the pastry by hand very quickly. Put it in the fridge for about 1 hour but at least for 30 minutes to chill.

2. Preheat the oven to 200°C and as preparing the basket forms, oil them properly in order the pastry not to get stuck in them.

3. Roll out the pastry and cut it with a pastry cutter (which fits to the basket forms - I used red wein glass :)) then arrange the pastry into the forms. Bake them in preheated oven for 15-20 minutes. When they are ready take them out and let them cool.

4. While the baskets get cool, prepare the vanilla cream. Mix the pudding with the sugar then pouring the milk constantly, whisk to get a lump-free mixture. Cook a very thick cream above medium-heat, stirring it constantly, then set aside and let it cool. When it's lukewarm, addmix the butter.

5. Fill the baskets with this cream, then decorate with fruits.