Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

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Learn how to make sweet shortcrust pastry. You'll be surprised how easy it is, then you can make all sorts of desserts like our apple and blackberry pies. Learn how to make sweet shortcrust pastry.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sweet shortcrust pastry using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
  1. Take 120 Grams butter , unsalted chopped
  2. Prepare 30 Grams icing sugar
  3. Take 1 Pinch salt
  4. Prepare 240 Grams plain flour
  5. Prepare 1 egg whole
  6. Prepare 1 egg yolk

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Instructions to make Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
  1. Place butter + sugar + salt into a food processor and process until creamy.
  2. Add flour and process until coarse bread crumbs
  3. Add the egg + egg yolk and process for 10 secs or until dough comes together to form a ball.
  4. Tip pastry onto a lightly floured bench & bring together with hands. Flatten gently into a round shape and wrap in plastic film. Refrigerate for 20 mins.
  5. Roll the rested dough to the size of your tart tray & press pastry into it. Fill any cracks with excess dough. Refrigerate again for 30 mins.
  6. Remove the tray from the fridge. Place a sheet of baking paper into the chilled pastry in the tart tin, half fill it with baking beads (or you can also use rice or butter beans etc.). Bake for 12-15 mins or until edges are light golden.
  7. Once done, remove the weights and bake for another 5 mins only or till the pastry is set. Your pastry is ready and now you can fill it with any filling of your choice.

A practically foolproof pastry that you can completely make in a food processor! Perfect for tarts, turnovers & pies. Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche or pie. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken pie. Shortcrust pastry recipes usually call for twice as much flour as fat by weight.

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