Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, sweet shortcrust pastry. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Sweet Shortcrust Pastry is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have sweet shortcrust pastry using 6 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1. Take 120 Grams butter , unsalted chopped
2. Take 30 Grams icing sugar
3. Prepare 1 Pinch salt
4. Get 240 Grams plain flour
5. Get 1 egg whole
6. Prepare 1 egg yolk

Instructions to make Sweet Shortcrust Pastry:

1. Place butter + sugar + salt into a food processor and process until creamy.
2. Add flour and process until coarse bread crumbs
3. Add the egg + egg yolk and process for 10 secs or until dough comes together to form a ball.
4. Tip pastry onto a lightly floured bench & bring together with hands. Flatten gently into a round shape and wrap in plastic film. Refrigerate for 20 mins.
5. Roll the rested dough to the size of your tart tray & press pastry into it. Fill any cracks with excess dough. Refrigerate again for 30 mins.
6. Remove the tray from the fridge. Place a sheet of baking paper into the chilled pastry in the tart tin, half fill it with baking beads (or you can also use rice or butter beans etc.). Bake for 12-15 mins or until edges are light golden.
7. Once done, remove the weights and bake for another 5 mins only or till the pastry is set. Your pastry is ready and now you can fill it with any filling of your choice.

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