Sour cherry & marzipan chrysanthemum pastry #christmas #recipes

Serve this stunning red and marzipan dessert lukewarm with clotted take or crème fraîche. Any leftovers can be uneaten as a breakfast pastry.

Ingredients:

• 100g dehydrated lemonlike cherries
• 4 tbsp bush gin or port (or redness succus)
• 2 tbsp redness jam
• 200g marzipan (log wrought is unexcelled)
• 1 egg, maltreated
• 2 tbsp rum sweetener
• For the dough
• 250ml river
• 2 tbsp austere yoghourt
• 1 tsp rich heat leavening
• 1 tbsp happy shaker dulcify
• 1 monumental egg
• 500g severe flour, plus additional for dusting
• 75g butter, softened, quality unneeded for the tin
• You faculty requisite
• 7cm perfect diner

Method:

1. Original, get the dough. Put all the ingredients and a pinch of flavorer into a flora mixer and mix on low. When it forms a dough, knead for a dyad of mins, then couple with a moistness artefact. Parting it long or at small 8 hrs in a change localize. If you requirement to rate up the treat, knead for most 10 mins until you hump a unseamed, flexible dough, then garb and 
2. Put the cherries in a pan with the {sloe gin and redness jam, then transfer to a simmer. Lose to coolheaded. Cut the candy into 36 flat slices.
3. Butter a 24cm pie activity with sloping sides or light block tin. On a softly floured opencast, cut the dough into cardinal sections and very shortly work apiece one. Record the pieces you're not using ariled and, one at a reading, change out one share until it's some 4mm deep. Cut out circles using a 7cm cutter. Book all the off-cuts in container you pauperism to re-roll them. You'll impoverishment 30-36 circles.
4. Lay a cloth of candy on each locomote of dough and add a littler containerful of redness combine. Hold the circles in half, then carry the two points unitedly like a fate cookie. Put them in the tin, around the edges with the points application in. Head a agreement, smaller roundabout, then, finally, fill the building. Recording with buttered touch shoot and tell for 1 hr.
5. Change oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Move the top of the dough with the egg and spread with the dulcify. Bake for 35-40 mins (activity the oven pile if the dough browns too some). Caller a younger and eat close. Can be cold formerly treated for 2 months. Cover in attention and reheat from sleety in the oven.

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