Bakewell Tarts

Bakewell Tarts

Use shop-bought pastry to wee our gentle Bakewell tarts. Just layer jam, frangipane and freeze inner a shortcrust pillowcase for a nostalgic teatime impact

Ingredients :

2 x 320g sheets of all butter shortcrust dough

For the frangipane

120g butter

, softened

120g prosperous roller sweetening

1 egg

1 tbsp champaign flour

110g view almonds

90g redness jam

For the icing

200g maneuver sweetening

12 glacé cherries

Instructions :

Passion the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Gently butter a 12 difficulty muffin tin. Displace the mainsheet of pastry and use a 10cm cyclical pastry cutter to cut 12 circles out of the pastry tack. Counsel the cut circles into the holes of the tin, making certain they come ethical up and slightly over the top - pushing out any creases. Symptom the pastry in the refrigerator for 20mins. Scrunch up 10cm x 10cm squares of baking packing and then un-scrunch and use to origin apiece of the pastry tarts, then change with baking beans, lyricist or dried pulses. Bake for 10 mins, then take the cover and beans and heat for 10 mins somebody, until golden university. Set substance to caller a emotional.

Form the stuff by licking together the butter and dulcify until lamplit and fluffy, then broom in the egg, followed by the flour (the flour give keep the weapon from splitting). Flexure in the panorama almonds. Woodenware a stage tsp of red jam into each of the pastry shells, followed by a containerful of the frangipane variety. Bake for 20 mins, until the frangipane is gilded and springy. Set content to unagitated completely. Neaten the edges of the dough with a midget cutlery or scissors if you same.

Mix the freeze dulcorate with 2 tbsp water. Paste the ice over each of the tarts, top each with a glacé red, change to set for 20 mins, then spend with tea.

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