Would you like to make a popular delicate French shortcrust pastry dessert? Then bake fragrant, sophisticated cherry tartlets. This is a very tasty delicacy that will not leave indifferent any sweet tooth.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
A variety of tartlets and baskets provide a huge scope for culinary creativity and experimentation. Almost any filling, both sweet and salty, is laid in a sandy base. Therefore, such tartlets can be dessert served with a sweet table, or the main snack dish at the main feast. The baskets are baked in special small baking tins with corrugated beautiful edges.
Shortcrust pastry is a mixture of flour and fat (butter or margarine) in a ratio of mostly 1: 2. Additionally, a liquid ingredient - water or an egg - is added to "glue" the food. For the shortbread dough to cook well, you should use flour that is low in gluten, otherwise it will come out rough and tough. In order for the dough to have a special aroma and taste, you can put ground cinnamon or nutmeg, crushed nuts or vanilla in it.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 160 kcal.
- Servings - 10
- Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g
- Margarine or butter - 150 g
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 200 g or to taste
- Sour cream - 250 g
- Cherries - 400 g (can be replaced with other berries or fruits)
- Salt - a pinch
- Soda - 1/2 tsp
Cooking Cherry Tartlets
1. Put margarine cut into pieces into a container, add sugar, pour 2 tbsp. sour cream and beat in an egg. Margarine should be cold, but not frozen or at room temperature. The rest of the ingredients should also be cool.
2. Pour flour, sift through a sieve, and knead the dough so that it does not stick to your hands. It is necessary to achieve its crumb-like consistency so that the dough is not hard, but retains the friability effect.
Knead the dough by hand so as not to disturb its consistency. Try not to knead it for too long, otherwise the margarine will melt, which will prevent you from achieving the desired crumbling effect.
When the dough is ready, form a ball out of it, wrap it with cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
3. After this time, take out the dough, divide it into 10 parts, each of which is rolled into a ball. Put this ball in a mold and flatten it with your hands, as shown in the photo.
4. Meanwhile, place the sour cream with sugar in a deep container and beat with a mixer until an airy foam is formed.
5. Fill each basket with pitted cherries and cover with whipped sour cream. Cherries can be fresh, frozen, or canned. Send the baskets to bake in a heated oven up to 200 degrees for 25-30 minutes. When they are ready, do not rush to remove them from the molds. Since the dough is very soft, it can break. It must be allowed to cool slightly, after which the tartlets can be removed without problems.
See also the video recipe: Cherry tartlets.
