Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, basic sweet shortcrust pastry. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Suitable for freezing before or after baking. I've made this recipe for shortcrust pastry incredible simple, and you can choose to make it either by hand or using a food processor. I always make this shortcrust pastry by hand. it takes a matter of minutes and there's less washing up.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
- Prepare 250 g plain flour, sifted
- Make ready 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
- Make ready 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
- Get Pinch salt
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
- Make ready 2 egg yolks
- Take 1 tablespoon milk
In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt. Cut the butter into the flour using a pastry blender or two knives to get a grainy texture and the butter is the size of peas. A Pate Sucree' aka homemade sweet shortcrust pastry is the perfect base for many desserts, such as tarts and pies. It's sweet, rich, melts in the mouth pastry with a biscuit-like crumb.
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.
Sift the flour and salt into a dish or food processor. Cut the butter into cubes and add to the bowl or food processor. If using a food processor, pulse the butter and flour together until the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs. A Sweet Pastry Crust adds a little more sugar and an egg to your basic Pie Crust recipe. More often than not, this Sweet Pastry Crust is prebaked.
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