Name: Sweet Pastry Dough
Yield: Makes about 500 g dough, enough for two 25 cm tarts, or the bottom and top crust for a 25cm pie
Ingredients: 75 g sugar; 260 g plain flour; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon baking powder; 2 medium eggs; 110 g unsalted butter, cold, cut into 10 pieces

Preparation info

Makes about 500 g dough, enough for
two
25 cm tarts

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

If you’ve long shied away from preparing pastry, this is a perfect dough to begin with as you conquer your fear. It’s easy both to make and to use, and it always bakes through dry and golden on the bottom, ensuring a successful tart with no filling leaks or inconsistent patches.

Ingredients

260 g plain flour
75 g sugar
½ teaspoon

Method

To mix the dough by hand, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and stir well to combine.
Cut each piece of butter into 4 or 5 smaller pieces and add all of them to the bowl.
Use both hands, palms upward, to reach under the dry ingredients to the bottom of the bowl and lift them up through the contents of the bowl several t