Fruit Tartlets Recipe

Fruit Tartlets Recipe

Ingredients : Makes 8

175 ml

15 ml

175 ml

675 g

 

For the pastry

150 g

65 g

45 ml

200 g

1

Redcurrant jelly

Fresh lemon juice

Whipping cream

Fresh fruit, such as strawberries, raspberries, kiwi fruit, peaches, grapes

or currants, peeled and sliced as necessary

 

Cold butter, cut in pieces

Dark brown sugar

Cocoa powder

Plain flour

Egg white

Method :
  • For the pastry, melt the butter, brown sugar and cocoa over a low heat. Remove from the heat and sift over the flour. Sift, then add enough egg white to bind. Form into a ball, wrap and chill for 30 minutes.
  • Grease eight 8cm tartlet tins. Roll out the pastry between two sheets of greaseproof paper. Stamp out eight 10cm / 4in rounds with a fluted biscuit cutter.
  • Line the tartlet tins and prick the bases with a fork. Chill for 15 minutes. Preheat oven to 180oC/350oF/Gas 4.
  • Bake the pastry cases until firm, 20-25 minutes. Cool, then turn out.
  • Melt the jelly with the lemon juice. Brush over the tartlet bases. Whip the cream and spread thinly in the tartlet cases. Arrange the fruit on top. Brush with the jelly glaze and serve.

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