Low Fat Desserts Recipes - Fila Scrunchies

Ingredients

• 5 apricots or plums

• 4 sheets of filo pastry

• 20ml soft margarine, melted

• 50g demerara sugar

• 30ml flaked almonds

• icing sugar, for dusting

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 190'C/375'F/Gas 5. Cut the apricots or plums in half, remove the stones and slice the fruit thinly.

2. Cut the filo pastry into 12 18cm/7in squares. Pile the squares on top of each other and cover with a clean dish towel to prevent the pastry from drying out. Remove one square and brush it with melted margarine. Lay a second filo square on top, then, using your fingers, mould the pastry into neat folds.

3. Lay the scrunched filo square on a baking sheet. Make five more scrunches in the same way, working quickly so that the pastry does not dry out. Arrange a few slices of fruit in the folds of each scrunches, then sprinkle generously with demerara sugar and almonds.

4. Bake the scrunches for 8-10 minutes until golden brown, then loosen from the baking sheet with a palette knife. Place or. a platter, dust with icing sugar and serve immediately.

5. Cook's Tip: Filo pastry dries out very quickly. Keep it covered as much as possible with clear film or a dry cloth to limit exposure to the air, or it with become too brittle to use.