Shortcrust pastry is a kind of dough made on butter, egg, and flour, and you can cook with it deliciously sweet and salty tart recipes.
We want to share our Best Sweet Shortcrust Pastry with you. In this article, you will learn all directions on how to prepare it, and in our Blog, you will find various tart recipes to use the shortcrust pastry as an ingredient.
Ingredients for a baking dish of 24 cm diameter
- 200 g all-purpose flour
- 100 g diced unsalted butter from the refrigerator
- 100 g sugar
- 1-egg
- salt
- 5 g of baking powder
- organic ground lemon zest
Directions
- In a bowl, add the egg and sugar and mix it well until the sugar melts helping with an electric egg beater.
- Add the unsalted butter from the refrigerator diced and mix it delicately. Add the organic grated lemon zest.
- Add the sifted flour and baking powder and mix it well to make the shortcrust pastry. It is not necessary to mix and knead the dough too much, because the butter can melt and make the dough sticky.
- Wrap the dough with a pellicle and let it rest in the refrigerator for one hour, or longer, if you prefer to use it the next day. You can prepare variously sweet recipes with it. Find our suggestion of the shortcut pastry pie crust recipe HERE.
Bon Apetit!
Tips
You can conserve the shortcrust pastry in the freezer for a longer time.
If you like or need more shortcrust pastry, then you can double the measures of the ingredients.
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