Gluten-Free Sweet Pastry with Almonds

Name: Gluten-Free Sweet Pastry with Almonds
Yield: Makes About 280 g
Ingredients: seeds of ½ vanilla pod or 1 tsp vanilla extract; 1 egg yolk; 180 g ground almonds; 1 tbsp ice-cold water (optional); 2 tsp caster sugar; 70 g butter, cold and cut into cubes; pinch of salt

Preparation info

Makes About
280 g

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake

By Lorraine Pascale

Published 2017

About

Although this pastry is quite crumbly to work with, it has plenty of flavour. The trick is to blitz ground almonds into a fine texture, so that they become flour-like. For a gluten-free pastry without nuts, please see my Gluten-free shortcrust pastry.

Ingredients

180 g ground almonds
2 tsp caster sugar
pinch of

Pastry
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Put the ground almonds into a food processor and pulse them until you have achieved a very fine texture, similar to almond flour. Then tip in the caster sugar, salt, butter and vanilla and pulse until the mixture starts to resemble fine breadcrumbs. Add the egg yolk and keep pulsing until the mixture just comes together. If the mixture still looks a bit dry after you’ve pulsed it a few times, t