Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

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Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Basic Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Basic shortcrust pastry is the easiest pastry to make, it is a versatile pastry suitable for sweet or savory dishes. Sometimes a sweet shortcrust pastry is needed, especially for desserts and sweet pies as it adds extra flavor and depth. A rich shortcrust pastry recipe is similar to basic shortcrust but has an egg and sugar added to it.

To begin with this particular 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. Prepare 250 g plain flour, sifted
  2. Make ready 125 g cold unsalted butter, diced
  3. Get 100 g pure icing sugar, sifted
  4. Prepare Pinch salt
  5. Get 1 teaspoon vanilla paste or extract
  6. Take 2 egg yolks
  7. Make ready 1 tablespoon milk

Add the cubed butter to the flour. Note: You can use salted or unsalted butter. Basic sweet shortcrust pastry is a beautiful thing. It can be used for pies, tarts and pastries of all sorts.

Instructions 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.

It seems though, that shortcrust pastry is sometimes feared, that it is too hard to make, too complicated, or some are afraid it won't turn out. Shortcrust is probably the most widely used of all pastries and goes well with sweet or savory fillings. This is a basic shortcrust pastry recipe. This shortcrust pastry is a light, sweet, crumbly dough used for making tarts and small pies. It's so easy to make: beat the butter and sugar in a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, then add eggs, then the flour.

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