
Bakewell tart
A British dessert made with chilled butter, cold water and raspberry jam.
Ingredients
- 1Flour175 g
- 2chilled butter75 g
- 3cold water2-3 tbsp
- 4raspberry jam1 tbsp
- 5Butter125 g
- 6Caster Sugar125 g
- 7ground almonds125 g
- 8free-range egg, beaten1 piece
- 9almond extract½ tsp
- 10flaked almonds50 g
Method
- 1
To make the pastry, measure the flour into a bowl and rub in 125 g of butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the water, mixing to form a soft dough.
- 2
Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface and use to line a 20cm/8in flan tin. Leave in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
- 3
Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 (180C fan).
- 4
Line the pastry case with foil and fill with baking beans. Bake blind for about 15 minutes, then remove the beans and foil and cook for a further five minutes to dry out the base.
- 5
For the filing, spread the base of the flan generously with 1 tbsp of raspberry jam.
- 6
Melt the butter in a pan, take off the heat and then stir in the sugar. Add 125 g of ground almonds, egg and ½ tsp almond extract. Pour into the flan tin and sprinkle over 50 g of flaked almonds.
- 7
Bake for about 35 minutes. If the almonds seem to be browning too quickly, cover the tart loosely with foil to prevent them burning.

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