Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

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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. In a food processor, process flour, sugar, salt and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs.

Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something which I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
  1. Take 250 g plain flour, sifted
  2. Make ready 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
  3. Prepare 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
  4. Make ready Pinch salt
  5. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
  6. Get 2 egg yolks
  7. Take 1 tablespoon milk

Homemade sweet pie dough makes all the difference, no matter what type of pie or tart you make! And it can be made-ahead and frozen for a few months. Sift the flour and salt into a dish or food processor. Cut the butter into cubes and add to the bowl or food processor.

Steps to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Lightly grease a 22cm loose-bottomed tart tin and line base with baking paper
  4. 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.
  5. Carefully line the tart tin with the pastry, and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
  6. 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.

If using a food processor, pulse the butter and flour together until the mix resembles fine breadcrumbs. 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. Because you will find this basic pastry dough mentioned in many different ways. In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt.

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