1,522 easy and fully explained recipes, with +66K photos and 78 videos

This site uses only a few technical cookies necessary for its operation. By continuing to browse, you accept their use.
To find out more...

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)

Name: Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
Prep time: 33 min
Total time: 33 min
Yield: 1 kg 220 g
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45); 350 g butter; 2 eggs; 110 g caster sugar; 5 g fine (or table) salt; 125 g ground almonds

Sweetcrust pastry is one of the basic pastry of French patisserie, used in many tart and cakes recipes, but it can also be rolled out and cut into biscuits, delicious with tea or coffee.

This recipe is given for those who have a mixer (Kenwood, KitchenAid or other), but it can also be done with your hands.

Please note that it's very important to make it several hours before using it, if possible the day before, as then it's much easier to work.

500 K 2× 3.7/5 (56 reviews)

35 min.

Easy

6.10 €

1 kg 220 g

6 Ingredients

Last modified on: July 1^st 2019

For 1 kg 220 g, you will need:

1 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45)
2 350 g butter
3 2 eggs
4 110 g caster sugar
5 5 g fine (or table) salt
6 125 g ground almonds (optional)
Total weight: 1,065 grams

Times for this recipe

Preparation: 35 min.

When should you start or finish this recipe?

If you start now, at , you will finish around : ?.Change start time

To finish around 7pm, you'll need to have started before: .Change end time

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 1

Put 500 g plain white flour (French Type 45), 350 g butter, 2 eggs, 110 g caster sugar, 125 g ground almonds and 5 g fine (or table) salt in the mixer bowl.

Stage 2

Start to knead on low speed.

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 3

After a few minutes the pastry will form. Stop the mixer as soon as possible to get an easy to work dough.

There is no problem if there are still some small pieces of butter not completely mixed in.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 4

Finish mixing the dough with a maryse.

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 5

Put a sheet of plastic film on your weighing-scales, and weigh out about 320 g dough.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 6

Form it into a ball.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 7

Then flatten the ball into a cake. This will help when you come to out roll it out.

Note that the more flatter it is at this stage, easier it will be later.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée) : Stage 8

Wrap the pastry in the plastic film, and write on top what it is.

Stage 9

Repeat the operation until the end of dough, and put any pastry which you do not intend use within the next few days in the freezer.

Remarks

Look at this page to see how to to roll out pastry for a tart, and how to "bake blind".

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, covered by a plastic film.

Source: After Gaston Lenôtre.

Nutritional information

	Proteins (gr)	Carbohydrates (gr)	Fats (gr)	Energy value (in k-calories)	Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe	90 RDI=30 %	510 RDI=50 %	380 RDI=60 %	5,810 RDI=290 %	24,340 RDI: 290 %
Per 100 g	8 RDI=3 %	50 RDI=4 %	40 RDI=5 %	550 RDI=30 %	2,290 RDI: 30 %

Possible allergens in this recipe: Gluten, milk, egg, Nuts

How much will it cost?

For 1 kg 220 g : 3.60 €

Change currency:

Note: Be careful, these prices are only an estimate, you can consult the table of prices by ingredients used for this estimate.

Some other recipes using this recipeSee them all 45

Mini almond-morello tarts

This very simple recipe is a good way to use up leftover sweetcrust pastry. The tiny tarts are filled with almond cream and topped with a morello cherry (French Griottines are best, if you can get them).
42 K 25 min.

Apple amandine tarts from Brélès

Amandines are small sweetcrust pastry tarts filled with fruit and topped with almond cream. Here's a rather more sophisticated version made with stewed apple, rice pudding and almond cream.
196 K3.7 1 hour 10 min.

How to bake blind

This method allows you to cook a tart case, and then fill with a preparation which may or may not need further cooking (fruit, chocolate, crème patissière , etc...).
938 K5 1 hour 40 min.

How to make a good pastry tart case

Lining a tin or mould with pastry to make a tart or pie seems simple enough: you roll out the pastry, put it in the tin and trim off any overhanging bits. It may not be rocket science, but if you want a tart with a perfect pastry case, it really helps to take care over a few details, which I will...
83 K 45 min.

Tarte Jurassienne

This tarte jurassienne (from France's Jura region) has a sweetcrust pastry case, filled with rich hazelnut buttercream and topped with a rosette of apple slices that have been sautéed in Macvin du Jura liqueur.
84 K 25 1 hour 20 min.

This recipe uses (among others)

Other recipes you may also like

Express apple tart

A fine apple tart, very quick to make.

April 8^th 2020381 K 24.6 55 min.

Soft fruits in sabayon

This recipe is made by briefly cooking an assortment of soft fruits (raspberries, blackcurrants, blackberries, blueberries, currants...) with a little sugar to glaze them. They are served in a small dish, covered with a delicious sabayon which can be lightly "burned" on surface.

February 21^th 2011278 K3.9 50 min.

Chocolate sauce

This rich smooth chocolate sauce, with its full flavour, is one of the indispensable ingredients of profiteroles, but it can be used with many others desserts.

February 21^th 2011320 K 24 35 min.

Ramekins of duchess potatoes

Duchess potatoes are a mix of mashed potato and egg yolks, cooked in the oven, in a decorative shape and delicious. In this recipe they top a ramekin containing a layer of mashed potato, cooked leek, and thinly sliced bacon.

March 4^th 2020309 K 24.6 2 hours 5 min.

Leavened bread

It might be harder to achieve good results than with traditional yeast bread, but what a flavour! It also keeps better. This recipe is designed for baking bread in a wood-fired oven but, of course, you can use the conventional oven in your kitchen.

May 23^th 20171.23 M 23.8 6 hours 30 min.

News list of cooking-ez.com

Note: We'll never share your e-mail address with anyone else.

The 2 comments already posted on this recipe

It doesn't.
Posted by jh october 3^rd 2021 at 17:05 n° 2
How does leaving out the ground almonds affect the proportions of the rest of the ingredients please?
Posted by Penny october 3^rd 2021 at 12:55 n° 1

Follow this recipe (as 2 people already do)

If you are interested in this recipe, you can "follow" it, by entering your email address here. You will then receive a notification immediately each time the recipe is modified or a new comment is added. Please note that you will need to confirm this following.