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title: "VIDEO: Cooking Demo with MasterChef Junior Ben Brown '21"
description: Ben Brown walks us through how to make his Citrus Napoleon from a previous episode of MasterChef Junior!
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# VIDEO: Cooking Demo with MasterChef Junior Ben Brown '21

Posted by [Heather Burchfield](https://blog.peckschool.org/blog/author/heather-burchfield) on Apr 15, 2019, 8:10:42 AM

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Ben Brown '21, Peck's very own MasterChef Junior, produced this video demonstration to illustrate how to make his Citrus Napoleon from this season 7 of FOX's reality cooking show.  

Enjoy!

**Ingredients**

1 cup milk  
1/3 cup of sugar  
1/8 cup corn starch  
pinch of salt  
2 eggs  
1 Tbsp butter  
1 orange  
1 lemon  
1 sheet packaged puff pastry  
3 blueberries

**Directions**

1. Place milk in a saucepan on medium heat and warm almost to boiling  
   point, but do not boil. Add sugar, cornstarch and salt to a mixing  
   bowl and lightly whisk to combine.
2. Separate the yolk from the eggs and add to mixture, then whisk to  
   combine egg yolks. Turn off the burner and slowly add warm milk from  
   the saucepan in quarter cup amounts to the mixing bowl and continue  
   whisking until dry ingredients have softened and smoothed.
3. Then add the mixture from the mixing bowl back into the saucepan, turn  
   burner back on to medium and continue whisking. Whisk continually for  
   eight or nine minutes until mixture becomes noticeable firm. Initially it  
   will seem like it is not firming, but it will eventually. Turn off  
   heat.
4. Using a zester, zest the orange and the lemon into the mixture.  
   Then squeeze the juice from half a lemon into the mixture. Mix well.
5. Put the thickened custard into a plastic container and use plastic  
   wrap to press down on the mixture to compress the air out and then  
   seal and refrigerate until cool.
6. Roll out a sheet of the puff pastry and working quickly cut three  
   rectangles of pastry from one pastry sheet. Place rectangles on a  
   sheet pan and then place another equally sized sheet pan snugly on top  
   to keep the puff pastry from puffing too much in the first stage of  
   cooking. Bake in an oven at 475 degrees 14 minutes. Then remove  
   the top sheet pan and bake until pastry is golden brown (about 10 more  
   minutes). Cool and refrigerate pastry rectangles
7. Place cold custard in a piping bag and pipe generously over the first  
   two pastry rectangles. Stack one on top of the other and then place  
   the thirds sheet on top. Pipe three dollops on top to decorate and  
   place one blueberry on each dollop.

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