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How to Make Pastry Tarts

Instructions For Use With:
FarmSteady Pastry Tart Kit with Finished Pastry Tarts

WHAT YOU NEED


Recipe Yield

  • 10 Pastry Tarts

     

Included Ingredients

  • Baking Mix

  • Icing Mix

  • Lavender Flowers

Additional Ingredients

  • 2 Sticks Cold Butter

  • 1/4 - 1/2 Cup Ice Water

  • 1 Egg (Optional for Egg Wash)

Equipment

  • Mixing Bowl

  • Fork
  • Wooden Spoon, Spatula or Flexible Dough Scraper

  • Rolling Pin

  • Pastry Brush
  • Baking Tray


STEPS


1.
Make Pastry Dough

Adding flour mix to bowl
Grated butter
Cutting in butter
Laying out pastry dough
Dividing pastry dough
Wrapping pastry dough in plastic wrap

In a mixing bowl, combine baking mix and cold grated butter, cutting in using a fork or a pastry cutter.

Add in ice water, one tablespoon at a time, until just combined.

Split dough into 4 pieces. Wrap in plastic wrap, and chill for 30 minutes.

Note: This dough also comes together quickly with a few pulses in a food processor.

2.
Roll & Cut

Rolling pastry dough
Holding pastry dough rectangle
Measuring pastry dough rectangles
Full tray of pastry dough rectangles

Roll out and cut 3”x4” rectangles (4 rectangles per piece of dough – 16 total). Store the cut rectangles in the fridge as they are completed.

Collect the scraps of dough and chill. Roll out and cut another 4 rectangles to achieve a total of 20 rectangles.

Chill in-between rolling and cutting to keep your dough cold.

3.
Fill, Stack & Crimp

Applying an egg wash to pastry dough
Spooning jam into pastry tarts
Closing the pastry tart
Crimping the pastry tart
Pricking pastry tart with fork

Prepare an egg wash by whisking together 1 egg with 1 tablespoon of water.

Brush the rectangles with an egg wash (Note: You can also use water in lieu of an egg wash).

Spoon jam onto one rectangle leaving a 1/4" border. Gently place a second rectangle atop the jam-filled rectangle.

Using a fork, crimp the edges of the rectangle. Prick the top with a fork. Repeat for all.

Chill for 15 minutes, and pre-heat oven to 325ºF.

4.
Bake

Pastry tarts about to go in the oven
Baking pastry tarts

Bake for 30-35 minutes, turning the pan halfway through.

Let cool on a wire rack fully before icing.

5.
Ice & Sprinkle

Adding water to icing mix
Icing on pastry tart
Dipping pastry tart in icing
Adding lavender to pastry tarts

In a shallow bowl (wide enough to fit your pastry tart), sift in icing mix, breaking up any clumps with a fork before adding in liquid.

Add in 1-3 tablespoons of water (1 tablespoon at a time to achieve a thick icing), smoothing out any clumps with the back of a spoon or rubber spatula.

Dip pastry tarts face down in icing to coat.

Sprinkle with lavender flowers and return to drying rack to set icing.

Repeat for all pastry tarts, and enjoy.

Completed Pastry Tarts

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