Farley goat's cheese and quince dodger

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These fun quince and goat's cheese dodgers from Sarah Frankland are very easy to make at home, and a fun and slightly more sophisticated twist on the traditional kind!

First published in 2023

Ingredients

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Farley goat's cheese sablé

Quince paste

  • 500g of water
  • 125g of caster sugar
  • 1 lemon, juiced
  • 2 quinces, peeled, quartered and cored
  • 3g of pectin nappage

Equipment

  • 5cm round fluted cutter

Method

1

Place the water, 100g caster sugar and lemon juice into a pan and bring to the boil

  • 500g of water
  • 100g of caster sugar
  • 1 lemon, juiced
2

Place the quince into the boiling syrup, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 2 hours until or soft

  • 2 quinces, peeled, quartered and cored
3

Preheat the oven to 160°C

4

Rub the flour, salt and butter together until they resemble breadcrumbs

5

Add the cheese and mix through

6

Add enough egg to combine to a dough, then knead until smooth

  • 50g of whole egg
7

Allow to rest for 20 minutes

8

Roll the pastry out until 3mm thick. Use a 5cm diameter round cutter to cut out 24 discs. Cut little hearts into half of the discs

9

Transfer the dodgers to a lined baking tray and bake for 12–15 minutes

10

Remove the quince from the syrup and allow to cool slightly, then blitz until smooth

11

Weigh out 250g quince purée and then place into a new pan. Mix the pectin with the remaining 25g caster sugar, rain into the purée and bring to the boil

  • 25g of caster sugar
  • 3g of pectin nappage
12

Remove from the heat, then transfer the paste to a container to cool and set

13

Once cooled, blend the quince paste into a pipeable consistency and use to sandwich the jammy dodgers together, using one solid disc and one with a heart cut out per dodger

First published in 2023

Pastry chef and chocolatier Sarah Frankland's philosophy is rooted in balance. As executive chef at Surrey's Pennyhill Park, she makes sure desserts blend sweetness with sour, bitter, salty and umami notes, an ethos shaped by her years working alongside the likes of Angela Hartnett, William Curley and Graham Hornigold.

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