Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

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Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

In a food processor, process flour, sugar, salt and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Suitable for freezing before or after baking. I've made this recipe for shortcrust pastry incredible simple, and you can choose to make it either by hand or using a food processor.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have basic sweet shortcrust pastry using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
  1. Make ready 250 g plain flour, sifted
  2. Prepare 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
  3. Take 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
  4. Get Pinch salt
  5. Take 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
  6. Make ready 2 egg yolks
  7. Prepare 1 tablespoon milk

Making shortcrust pastry really is not as difficult as you'd think. Follow these tips for great results every time and try these sweet and savory recipes. This is my favorite recipe as it is the most versatile. It is a good pastry for handling and for rolling and creates a lovely taut crust with a melting.

Steps to make Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:
  1. In a food processor, process flour, sugar, salt and butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add egg yolks, vanilla, and milk, pulse till the dough comes together.
  2. Without overworking the dough, form dough into a ball and place in a clean bowl, then wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 20 minutes to rest.
  3. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Lightly grease a 22cm loose-bottomed tart tin and line base with baking paper
  4. Place pastry on a lightly floured work surface or between two parchment papers. Using a lightly dusted rolling pin, start to evenly flatten roll dough, keeping it as round and neat as possible around the edges making an indent in dough at quarter turns. With even pressure, turn and lift pastry in a clockwise direction, rolling to a thickness of approximately 3mm.
  5. Carefully line the tart tin with the pastry, and chill in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
  6. Blind bake the pastry for 15 mins, remove the baking beans from the tart and bake for a further 10 mins. Remove tart from oven, allow to cool completely before filling.

In a large bowl, combine the flour and salt. Cut the butter into the flour using a pastry blender or two knives to get a grainy texture and the butter is the size of peas. A Pate Sucree' aka homemade sweet shortcrust pastry is the perfect base for many desserts, such as tarts and pies. It's sweet, rich, melts in the mouth pastry with a biscuit-like crumb. Because you will find this basic pastry dough mentioned in many different ways.

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