Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, basic sweet shortcrust pastry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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A shortcrust pastry is a simple pastry dough made of flour (usually all-purpose flour, but sometimes cake flour is also used), butter (or a fat like lard, or a combination of butter and a fat), and egg or cold water to bind them together. This sweet shortcrust pastry recipe makes the perfect pastry to wrap delicious fruit pies or sweet tarts in. It is simple to make and has just the right amount of sweetness to compliment the filling. It will turn you into a a bit of a kitchen diva and no-one has to know how easy it was!
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook basic sweet shortcrust pastry using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
- Take 250 g plain flour, sifted
- Get 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
- Take 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
- Prepare Pinch salt
- Take 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
- Prepare 2 egg yolks
- Prepare 1 tablespoon milk
If you don't have baking beans, you can use uncooked rice or lentils instead. Blind bake the pastry until lightly golden. Combine flour and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Cut butter into tablespoon-sized pieces; add it to the flour and butter.
Instructions to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
- In a food processor, process flour, sugar, salt and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and milk, pulse till the dough comes together.
- Without overworking the dough, form dough into a ball and place in a clean bowl, then wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes to rest.
- Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Lightly grease a 22cm loose-bottomed tart tin and line base with baking paper
- Place pastry on a lightly floured work surface or between two parchment papers. Using a lightly dusted rolling pin, start to evenly flatten roll dough, keeping it as round and neat as possible around the edges making an indent in dough at quarter turns. With even pressure, turn and lift pastry in a clockwise direction, rolling to a thickness of approximately 3mm.
- Carefully line the tart tin with the pastry, and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
- Blind bake the pastry for 15 mins, remove the baking beans from the tart and bake for a further 10 mins. Remove tart from oven, allow to cool completely before filling.
Combine flour and sugar in the bowl of an electric stand mixer. Cut butter into tablespoon-sized pieces; add it to the flour and butter. Use the paddle beater to mix the butter and flour together. Alternatively, this can be done by hand with a pastry blender. Blind baking is a process of baking a pie crust or other pastry without a filling.
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