Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, basic sweet shortcrust pastry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Basic shortcrust pastry is the easiest pastry to make, it is a versatile pastry suitable for sweet or savory dishes. Sometimes a sweet shortcrust pastry is needed, especially for desserts and sweet pies as it adds extra flavor and depth. A rich shortcrust pastry recipe is similar to basic shortcrust but has an egg and sugar added to it.
Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have basic sweet shortcrust pastry using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
- Make ready 250 g plain flour, sifted
- Prepare 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
- Prepare 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
- Get Pinch salt
- Get 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
- Make ready 2 egg yolks
- Get 1 tablespoon milk
Add the cubed butter to the flour. Note: You can use salted or unsalted butter. Basic sweet shortcrust pastry is a beautiful thing. It can be used for pies, tarts and pastries of all sorts.
Steps 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.
It seems though, that shortcrust pastry is sometimes feared, that it is too hard to make, too complicated, or some are afraid it won't turn out. Shortcrust is probably the most widely used of all pastries and goes well with sweet or savory fillings. This is a basic shortcrust pastry recipe. This shortcrust pastry is a light, sweet, crumbly dough used for making tarts and small pies. It's so easy to make: beat the butter and sugar in a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, then add eggs, then the flour.
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