The best butter tart pastries recipes - 4 recipes
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All you need is 3 main ingredients to make this Chocolate Strawberry Braid for dessert tonight!
Ingredients
- 7-9 medium-sized strawberries
- 1 puff pastry
- 1 chocolate bar
- 1 egg yolk
- Almond slivers
- Powdered sugar
Method
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Cut the strawberries into halves.
- Dust some flour on a flat surface and spread your puff pastry out on top, smoothing it into a rectangle shape if necessary.
- Place the bar of chocolate in the center, then top with a layer of strawberry halves.
- Using a pizza cutter or a knife, slice the edges of the puff pastry into strips that can be wrapped over the chocolate and strawberries. Starting with the flap at the top, fold over each strip in a slightly diagonal direction so that they resemble a braid.
- Brush the braid with a beaten egg yolk so that it covers the entire visible surface.
- Sprinkle almond slivers on top.
- Bake for 20-22 minutes.
- Give the braid a few minutes to cool down, then cover with a dusting of powdered sugar.
- Serve and enjoy!
Top rated Butter tart pastries recipes
Lemon Meringue Tartlets
By flutelah
The delicate shortbread crust plays well with the rich, zesty lemon cream and the sweet, airy meringue to top
- Shortbread pastry
- 150 g of flour
- a pinch of baking powder
- 75 g of sugar
- 1 orange
- 75 g of softened butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon of water
- Lemon cream
- 4 medium-sized lemons
- 60 g of water
- 150 g of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 soup spoon of Maïzena (corn starch)
- Italian meringue
- 60 g of water
- 150 g of sugar
- 105 g of egg whites
- 38 g of sugar
Orange Cranberry Biscones with Blackberry Coulis
By blwashnock, Brenda Sweet and Savory
This delicious biscone is a brunch item I make every year just before Christmas, it's fluffy and decadent with a bl...
- 1 & ½ cups Frozen Cranberries
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter
- 1 tablespoon finely shredded orange peel
- 16 ounces sour cream
- 2 egg yolks, beaten (reserve the whites for later)
- *2 egg whites mixed with 1t water
- Glaze:
- 2 cups powered sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 tablespoons water
- Blackberry Coulis:
- 2 cups frozen marion blackberries
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
Apple Tart
By amel, http://amelyahyaoui.wix.com/fares
Elegant dessert
- Crust
- 1 1/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-incj cubes
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon ice water or more.
- Filling
- 8 large about 4 pounds Golden Delicious or other tart apples
- 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 cup sugar plus 1 tablespoon for the tart top
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
low fat version of russian "piroshki"
By european cutie, European Cutie
Here is a low fat version I made of my grandma katrina's "piroshki" traditionally they are meat and cabbage filled ...
- 1 medium head cabbage grated ( I grade this on a cheese grater the old stand up aluminum kind)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tsp. dried thyme leaves
- 1 tsp. salt and pepper to taste
- Flaky Butter Pastry (recipe follows)
- 1 egg
- salt and pepper to taste
- extra virgin olive oil
- Smart Balance buttery sticks
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tbs low fat milk
- 1 tbs lemon juice
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