Today I would like to share with you a recipe for a truly summer dessert. Strawberries are a promise of the impending holiday season.

The combination of crunchy French pastry with a hint of cinnamon with crème and a huge amount of strawberries looks like a picturesque chaos on the plate. It is difficult to eat it elegantly but the sight of my children's delighted faces smeared with crème and strawberries was invaluable.

A similar dessert was prepared on the morning TV program Dzień Dobry TVN. I think that the inspiration for "strawberry mess" was the French dessert mille-feuille or the more familiar-sounding napoleon.

Traditionally, mille-feuille consists of three layers of French pastry arranged alternately with crème or layers of whipped cream and jam. The top is sprinkled with caster sugar, cocoa or decorated with chocolate glaze.

Ingredients (for four people)
1 pack of chilled French pastry
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
2 tablespoons of milk
250g of mascarpone cheese
150ml of 30% sweet cream
2 tablespoons of caster sugar
0.5kg of strawberries
leaves of fresh peppermint

Heat the oven up to 180C. Cover a baking sheet with some baking paper.
Cut the French pastry into 4 bigger rectangles and 8 smaller ones. Put the pieces onto the baking sheet, keeping them separate, sprinkle them with the milk, brown sugar and cinnamon. Bake for 20 minutes and leave to cool down. Whisk the cream with the caster sugar, add the mascarpone cheese and mix it in. Leave a couple of nice strawberries for decoration, cut the rest into smaller pieces. Arrange the big pieces of French pastry on some plates. Add some crème and cut the strawberries onto it. Now put two smaller pieces of French pastry on every dessert. Put the rest of the crème and the sliced strawberries on top. Decorate with the nice strawberries and leaves of peppermint. Serve at once.

Enjoy your meal!