Snail pie with cherries made from puff pastry

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 10 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make Snail Pie? Prepare the necessary ingredients. It is better to take puff pastry without yeast. The yeast part makes the dough heavier, and we need a light crumbly puff structure.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the cherries, dry them and remove the pits. Drain off the juice that has been released, or better yet, place the prepared cherries on a paper napkin to absorb all the excess moisture. If the cherries are frozen, first defrost the berries and also drain the juice. The finished weight of the cherries after processing should be 300 g, so take the berries with a reserve.

3. STEP 3

   

   Thaw the puff pastry. I usually use the dough in sheets, but for this recipe it's better to use the dough rolled into a roll, since we will need to cut it into long strips. And the dough in the roll has just the right length. Lightly roll out the puff pastry on a floured table into an even rectangle. You need to roll in one direction, from top to bottom, to increase the width of the puff layer.

4. STEP 4

   

   Cut the dough into strips of equal width about 5 cm. You can do this with a knife or a special round pizza cutter. Using a sieve, sprinkle the dough evenly with starch. This is necessary so that the juice released from the cherries during baking does not leak out of the dough.

5. STEP 5

   

   Place the cherries in a row on the strips. Sprinkle sugar evenly on top of the berries.

6. STEP 6

   

   How to roll a snail pie? Bring the edges of the dough together and pinch to make long dough sausages with berries inside. At first I tried to pinch the edges of the dough, but the sugar did not allow the edges to stick together properly. So I started wrapping the berries in the dough (the video shows how to do this).

7. STEP 7

   

   Place the resulting sausages in a round baking pan (Ø 26 cm) lined with parchment, seam side down. Connect the edges of the sausages together so that the juice from the berries does not flow out through the joints of the dough pieces. I still have some puff pastry left, from which I rolled small balls to decorate the pie. If you have any unused berries, you can make balls like these with cherries inside.

8. STEP 8

   

   Sprinkle the snail with almond flakes if desired. You don’t have to sprinkle anything at all. Place the pie in an oven preheated to 180°C for about 40 minutes.

9. STEP 9

   

   Remove the finished snail from the mold, transfer to a dish, let cool slightly and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired. Cut the snail into portions and serve, perhaps with a scoop of vanilla ice cream - it will go perfectly with this pie. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Julia

10.12.2023

4.7

An original recipe, although in principle there is no difficulty in preparing it. Thanks for the recipe!!