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Bakewell tart

Bakewell tart

84 min · Serves 4 · By TheMealDB Import

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  • British
  • Dessert
  • Tart
  • Baking
  • Alcoholic

British, Dessert, Tart, Baking, Alcoholic

Adapted from themealdb.com

Ingredients

For 4 servings

  • 175 g/6ozPlain Flour
  • 75 g/2 1/2ozchilled butter
  • 2 tbspCold Water
  • 1 tbspraspberry jam
  • 125 g/4 1/2ozButter
  • 125 g/4 1/2ozCaster Sugar
  • 125 g/4 1/2ozground almonds
  • 1 free-range egg, beaten
  • ½ tspalmond extract
  • 50 g/1 3/4ozflaked almonds

Method

Prep 20 min · Cook 64 min

  1. 1To make the pastry, measure the flour into a bowl and rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the water, mixing to form a soft dough.
  2. 2Roll 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. 3Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 (180C fan).
  4. 4Line 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. 5For the filing, spread the base of the flan generously with raspberry jam.
  6. 6Melt the butter in a pan, take off the heat and then stir in the sugar. Add ground almonds, egg and almond extract. Pour into the flan tin and sprinkle over the flaked almonds.
  7. 7Bake for about 35 minutes. If the almonds seem to be browning too quickly, cover the tart loosely with foil to prevent them burning.