Flaky Pastry Dough

Name: Flaky Pastry Dough
Yield: Makes about 500 g dough, enough for two 25 cm tart crusts or one double-crust pie
Ingredients: 2 medium eggs (see Note); 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon salt; 170 g unsalted butter, chilled, cut into 12 pieces; 260 g plain flour

Essential Technioue

Preparation info

Makes about 500 g dough, enough for
two
25 cm tart crusts or one double-crust pie

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

Flaky dough makes a wonderful container for many sweet and savoury fillings. Its fragile texture after baking is more than equalled by its subtle buttery flavour, which always enhances but never competes with delicate fillings.

Ingredients

260 g plain flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon

Pastry
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

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