bakewell tart

I had some flakey pastry left over from making pasties and a pie so thought I'd make something sweet.  Not the perfect pastry for making a tart but too nice to waste so I decided to try Bakewell Tart as I've never made this before.

So, a Mary Berry recipe once again.  Her recipe uses shortcrust pastry which would have been much nicer.  The Hairy Bikers recipe uses an enriched dough and tons of eggs but I'm guessing this was one of their pre-diet recipes.

2 tbsp raspberry jam
125g butter
125g caster sugar
125g ground almonds
1 egg
½ tsp almond essence
50g flaked almonds

for the icing

40g icing sugar

1 tsp cold water

Blind bake the pasty case for about 15mins at 180c, uncover and bake for a further 5 minutes to dry out.

Spread the base with raspberry jam

Melt the butter, add almonds and sugar.  Beat in the egg and almond essence.  Pour the mixture into the pastry case and sprinkle with the flaked almonds.  Bake for 35 minutes

Once cooled, mix up the icing and decorate.