apple strawberry cakelings

[redbird]

Since I have all these fresh strawberries, I decided to drop one piece of strawberry each on top of half the apple cakelings I was making.

It's still food, but baking doesn't improve fresh strawberries, nor does the strawberry improve the pastry. Ah, well. Such a shame to have 11 homemade cakelings sitting there while I debate what to do with mushrooms that will turn them into dinner.

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[papersky.livejournal.com]

To put strawberries into cakelings, you need to dredge them in sugar and a tiny bit of lemon juice, and either let them sit for a couple of hours or blast them over heat in a pan for a couple of minutes. Then you need to be sure they're covered by the cakeling batter, with no parts sticking out. Same with raspberries and redcurrants, only more sugar with redcurrants, and then some more. (I haven't put redcurrants into cakelings for years, not since I learned how to make compote with them. Mmm, redcurrant compote. Mmm, will be in season soon.)

Or, make plain cakelings and ice them, and stick a pristine strawberry onto the icing.

My most successful version of this was 12 plain cakelings, tops sliced off and cut in half, to make "butterfly wings", and then the top covered with cream whipped with a bit of icing sugar and a bit of cocoa, decorated with quartered strawberries, the wings, and dark choc chips. I made them for a RPG, everyone went "Wow" when I brought them into the room, and 11 of them had vanished among five people while I went back to the kitchen to bring the teapot. I said "Well, I'm glad you left me one!" and all of them chorused "Well, if you don't want it...!"