Blueberry and macadamia strudels

You know when you throw a bunch of stuff in to a pot and it turns out amazeballs and you wish you'd measured out all the ingredients? Yeah that.

In my continuing efforts to increase my waist line be a Domestic Goddess, I decided to make strudels. I'm not entirely sure why, perhaps because The Sound of Music had been on the day before and I was going around singing about my favourite things;

"Cream coloured ponies and crisp apple blueberry strudels, door bells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles".

So what follows is how I think my strudels were made.

Blueberry and Macadamia Strudels

Ingredients (makes 4 really huge strudels)

• 4 sheets of filo pastry
• 500g blueberries
• 100g berries that you've mushed the crap out of (I used a bag of mixed berries)
• Juice of 1/2 a lemon
• 1 1/2 cups of caster sugar
• 4 tablespoons of cornflower
• 50g macadamia nuts chopped finely (save time, use a food processor)
• 10g melted butter
• 50g melted chocolate

Method

• Cut the filo pastry in half, set aside covered with a damp teatowel so that it doesn't dry out
• Combine the whole berries and the mushed berries in a saucepan with the sugar and lemon juice and stir over a medium heat for five minutes until all the berries are soft but still retaining their shape
• Turn down the heat and add the cornflower and stir until the sauce thickens
• Divide the mixture evenly over half of the filo pastry pieces, leaving a margin around the edges. Brush the margin with melted butter and place a half sheet of filo over the top to create a long blueberry pocket. Press the sides down with your fingers and/or a fork
• Brush the entire top surface with a little melted butter and scatter the chopped macadamias over the top
• Bake in the oven at 175C for 20-25 minutes or until puffy and golden (careful the nuts don't burn!)
• Allow to cool for a few minutes then drizzle with melted chocolate (I had milk chocolate but white chocolate would have been heaven!) and if you like serve with a dusting of icing sugar (slightly wanky) or a scoop of vanilla icecream

So so so delicious that I heated one up for breakfast the next morning!