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Florentine tarts
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Prep Time:
55 minutes
Cook Time:
40 minutes
Total Time:
95 minutes
Delicious Florentine flavors in mini tarts.
Ingredients:
  • 40g unsalted butter, melted
  • 40g caster sugar
  • 1-10.00 ml plain flour
  • 50g almond meal
  • Melted chocolate, to drizzle
  • 125g plain flour
  • 75g unsalted butter
  • 3.00 gm pure icing sugar
  • 150g caster sugar
  • 50g almond
  • 20.00 ml red glace cherries, diced
  • 20.00 ml green glace cherries, diced
  • 1-40.00 ml chopped mixed peel
Instructions:
  • Prepare the praline by lining a baking tray with foil and greasing it with butter. In a saucepan over low heat, combine sugar and 2 tablespoons of cold water, stirring with a wooden spoon until the sugar dissolves. Increase heat to medium and cook without stirring for 10 minutes until golden caramel forms (brushing down sides of the pan occasionally with a damp pastry brush). Stir in almonds, cherries, and peel, then evenly pour the mixture onto the foil. Let the praline cool and set before breaking it into shards.
  • Prepare six 8cm loose-bottomed tart pans by greasing them. To make the pastry, combine flour, butter, and sugar in a food processor and pulse until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs. Add just enough cold water to form a smooth dough ball. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 15 minutes.
  • Roll the pastry on a lightly floured surface to a 5mm thickness. Cut out 6 rounds using a 12cm cutter and line tart pans with them. Chill for 15 minutes.
  • Preheat your oven to 190C. Line tarts with baking paper and weigh them down with pastry weights or uncooked rice. Bake for 10 minutes.
  • In the bowl of an electric mixer, whisk together butter, egg, and sugar until pale and thick. Gently fold in flour and meal using a metal spoon.
  • Take out the parchment paper and the weights or rice from the tart shells, then fill them with almond-meal mixture. Bake for an extra 10 minutes until the filling is set.
  • Allow the tarts to cool slightly for 2 minutes, then embellish with praline shards and a decadent drizzle of melted chocolate.

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