Baking an Empty Tart Crust

Essential Technique

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

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Often a tart crust needs to be fully baked before adding a filling that doesn’t require baking. This technique is known as baking it ‘blind’. It’s simple to do, but you’ll need some dried beans to weigh down the crust during the initial baking time when it might puff up and distort.

Ingredients

Method

  1. When you are ready to bake the tart crust, set a rack in the centre of the oven and preheat to 180°C/gas mark 4.
  2. Pierce the chilled crust at 2.5cm intervals with a fork. Line the bottom and sides of the crust with a 35.5cm disc of parchment paper (A) a