The ultimate Michelin star Mother’s Day dessert
Your mother deserves the best and if there’s anyone we would take cooking advice from, it’s South Africa’s Michelin star chef, Jan-Hendrik van der Westhuizen.
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and it’s best to get planning right away. A Mother’s Day dessert is a sure way to win mom over.
Here’s Jan’s top tips on how to make the perfect homemade sweetie pie. We certainly cannot wait to try it out. For a perfect sweetie pie, the biscuit is very important.
For the biscuit:
Cream the butter and icing sugar until light and fluffy. Add the vanilla extract. Add the salt, corn flour and flour to the butter mixture and mix on low speed until it comes together. Roll out the dough between baking paper sheets and freeze it until solid. Use a 3-4cm cookie cutter, cut out the biscuit rounds and place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake for 10 minutes.
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Listen to how Jan passionately explains the decadent dessert.
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Jan is the only South African chef to have been awarded a Michelin star.
The internationally-acclaimed chef has released his latest coffee table cookbook, JAN the JOURNAL.