Almond Tarts

Name: Almond Tarts
Yield: Makes 24 tartlets
Ingredients: 1 tsp almond essence; 1 egg; ½ cup castor sugar; 125 g butter; jar of good raspberry jam; baking paper cut into 1½ x 10cm strips, you’ll need about 48 of these; 2 tbsp plain flour; 1½ cups ground almonds; 200 g flaked almonds; 200 g cold butter, chopped; 1 egg yolk (from a large egg); 300 g plain flour; 3 tbsp icing sugar; 1 tbsp chilled water

Preparation info

Makes
24
tartlets

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Week in the Kitchen

By Karen Dudley

Published 2012

About

When my mom collected me from school, she would often have a treat that she had picked up from a bakery, some treasure that she had discovered. In my young experience, nothing was ordinary. And the shared delight of something pure and good remains with me. This crisp almond tart recalls that simple pleasure.

Ingredients

Short crust pastry

300 g plain flour
3 tbsp icing sugar
200

Dessert
Vegetarian
Pie

Method

To make the pastry, place the flour, sugar and butter in a food processor and process until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. With the processor’s motor running, add the egg yolk and water and process until the mixture comes together and forms a ball. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface, flatten the pastry into a disc shape, wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for 30 minutes.