Easy homemade dough recipe for sweet tarts and pies
Ingredients
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- 112 gr. butter (cold) ,
- 90 gr. sugar ,
- 200 gr. flour ,
- 130 gr. powdered almond ,
- 1 egg ,
- 2 gr. salt ,
- butter or oil for the tart preparation
Instructions
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- Mix butter and sugar in the mixer and homogenized with the whisk. ,
- Add egg and mix for 2 more minutes. ,
- Change whisk with hook and add the rest ingredients until a homogenous mixture. ,
- Cover with a cloth and put mixture in the fridge for 40 minutes. ,
- Place dough between two sheets of baking paper and roll out with a rolling pin, starting from the center of dough and press in all directions, until a round, uniform and 1/2 cm. thick pastry sheet takes form (it must be bigger than the tart case). ,
- Oil and sprinkle with flour the tart case, shaking off excess. ,
- Spread dough in tart case and cover the bottom and the sides. Cut surplus dough.
How to pre-bake dough
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- Cover dough's surface with baking paper and place over lots of beans so it won't expand. ,
- Bake at 170ºC for 15 minutes, remove the beans and bake for 10 more minutes. ,
- Take it out the oven and let the dough cool down.
