Baked Brick
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TypeDessert
Serves4 people
DateSeptember 15, 2026
Crispy filo ‘laptop’ with lemon cream and chili, a dessert full of tension and control.
A sharp-sour dessert nodding to ‘Chosen Brick’ spyware: layers of crisp filo (like bricks), filled with lemon cream and chili, stacked as an open laptop. The silhouette references the compromised device taken over by the software.
Ingredients
- 8 sheets filo pastry
- 80 g unsalted butter, melted
- 2 lemons (zest and juice)
- 100 g fine caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg yolk
- 100 ml whipping cream
- 1 red chili pepper
- 1 tbsp powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp pistachios, roughly chopped
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Cut the filo sheets into rectangles about 12x8 cm.
- Brush each sheet lightly with melted butter and layer them in pairs on a baking tray with parchment. Make 8 double rectangles.
- Bake the filo rectangles for 8-10 minutes until golden and crisp. Let cool.
- Zest the lemons and squeeze the juice.
- Whisk eggs, yolk, and sugar until light in a saucepan.
- Add lemon zest and juice. Heat while stirring until the mixture thickens.
- Remove from heat and stir in the cream. Let cool.
- Slice the chili into thin rings.
- On each plate, build a ‘laptop’: stand two filo rectangles at a right angle (one as ‘screen’, one as ‘keyboard’), fix with lemon cream.
- Fill the ‘keyboard’ with a generous spoon of lemon cream, sprinkle with chili rings, powdered sugar, and pistachios.
Serving notes
- Serve with extra lemon zest for added sharpness.
- Set the filo ‘laptop’ slightly open for a recognizable silhouette.
- Place an extra chili ring as a ‘power button’ on the keyboard.