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Simply delicious
Use any fruit
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This strawberry tart recipe is great fun to make with children, depending on age a little more help from parent is required to get it right but it’s simply delicious as treat for the whole family.
Remember
Trim edges of the pastry after it’s cook
You’ll need peas or rice to blind bake the pastry
Substitute some of the milk for cream for a richer filling
Ingredients
Pastry
- 125g Butter
- 200g Plain flour
- 1 Egg
Crème Patissiere
- 400ml Milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
- 3 Egg Yolks
- 100g Caster sugar
Topping
- 500g Strawberries
Method
- Pre-heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6.
- Mix the softened butter, egg and plain flower bowl.
- Combine the pastry until it forms a ball.
- Dust a surface with flour and roll out the pastry to 3-5mm thickness.
- Grease a 23cm tart dish and lay the pastry on top pressing gently into the corners, trim any excess remembering to leave a couple of CM overhang.
- Lay baking paper on top of the pastry and add baking beans on top then bake for 15 mins.
- Remove the beans and baking paper then return to the oven for 15-20 mins, once cooked remove and allow to cool. Trim the edges of the pastry.
- Combine the vanilla essence, egg yolks and caster sugar in a bowl.
- Pour the milk in a pan and bring to a simmer, slowly add the milk to the mixture stirring continuously then return all to the pan.
- Heat and stir the mix until it thickens. Allow to cool then pour onto the pastry.
- Slice your strawberries and arrange on top of the tart.
- Place the tart in the fridge to firm.
Kid’s Guide
Ask a grown up to turn on the oven.- Measure 125g of butter.
- Put the butter in a bowl.
- Measure 100g of caster sugar.
- Add the caster sugar to the butter.
- Crack one egg into the bowl.
- Stir the caster sugar, egg and butter until they combine into a ball.
- Lay some flour on the table and place the dough down then roll it into a circle the thickness of a pound coin.
- Lay the pastry on top of your 23cm tart dish and gently press it into the corners.
- Ask a grown up to help cut some of the overhanging pastry
- Place some baking paper on top of the pastry and pour baking beans on top.
- Ask a grown up to place this in the oven for 30 mins, removing the beans and paper half way through.
- Measure 100g of caster sugar
- Pour the caster sugar in a bowl.
- Add 3 egg yolks to the bowl
- Add 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence to the bowl.
- Mix the ingredients together for a few minutes.
- Ask a grown up to heat 400l of milk in a pan.
- Add some of the warm milk into the bowl stirring all the time, then add the mix back into the pan.
- Ask a grown up to heat the mixture until it thickens then allow it to cool down.
- Pour the custard mix into the pastry.
- Ask a grown up to help cut up the strawberries then arrange them on top of the tart in a nice pattern.
Ask a grown up to turn on the oven.
Measure 125g of butter.
Put the butter in a bowl.
Measure 100g of caster sugar.
Stir the caster sugar, egg and butter until they combine into a ball.