Fresh Fruit Napoleon

As I mentioned in my vanilla pudding post, I originally meant to make a Fruit Napoleon. Well, here it is. This recipe is a fun one. It is light, tasty, and can be changed based on fruit preferences and what is in season.

The Napoleon is the American name for the French pastry Mille-feuille. A traditional Napoleon is made up of three layers of puff pastry with two layers of crème pâtissière. Toppings can range from icing, chocolate or sugar.

My version is slightly different than the traditional dessert. Here I have a single layer of crème filled with blueberries and garnished with a strawberry.

Vanilla Pudding

This was not what I originally intended to make.

Oops.

I was going to make a fruit napoleon and found out that an ingredient for that was vanilla pudding. As the pudding can stand alone, I decided to separate the pudding front the napoleon (but don't worry that will be coming soon).

If you are like Billy, then when you think of pudding, you think of the Snack Pack. And just for your amusement let me throw in a couple more clips here and here. I am not much of a pudding fan but I have to admit, homemade pudding is much better than a Snack Pack.

This recipe takes some time to finish, but only because the pudding has to set in the fridge, so be prepared before starting out, otherwise enjoy!