Sweet pastry
This sweet pastry is one of the basics of French pâtisserie, just like shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée) and sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée). It is less rich in butter, so less "short" but crisper, it can be used in all tart recipes, or for any other pastry-based desserts.
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Grade this recipe: Last modified on: June 27th 2018
For 550 g, you will need:
- 0
60 g egg - 1
275 g flour - 2
108 g butter - 3
135 g icing sugar - 4
3 g fine (or table) salt - Total weight: 581 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Start to finish |
|---|---|
| 13 min. | 13 min. |
Keeping:
Several days in the fridge, wrapped in plastic film.Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 3 min.
Stage 2 - 3 min.
Put into a food-mixer bowl: 275 g flour, 108 g butter cut into small pieces, 135 g icing sugar and 3 g fine (or table) salt.
Stage 3 - 3 min.
Mix together on medium speed until it makes a grainy dough.
Stage 4
Stop as soon as it reaches this consistency.
Stage 5 - 2 min.
Start the mixer again and pour in the egg in a thin stream.
Stage 6 - 2 min.
Stop kneading as soon as the dough is evenly mixed.
Stage 7
Weigh out the dough into pieces of 8 to 10 oz (250 to 300 grams), shape into balls, then into flat "cakes" and wrap these in plastic film.
Refrigerate until needed, or freeze.
Refrigerate until needed, or freeze.
Remarks
Sweet pastry can be used the day it is made. It just needs to rest in the fridge for 1 hour beforehand.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 2,385 Kcal or 9,986 Kj | 33 gr | 339 gr | 100 gr |
| 119 % | 13 % | 32 % | 15 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 411 Kcal or 1,721 Kj | 6 gr | 58 gr | 17 gr |
| 21 % | 2 % | 5 % | 3 % |
How much will it cost?
- For 550 g : 1.67 €
Note : These prices are only approximate.
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Alsatian apple tart
This tart from France's Alsace region has a sweet pastry (or sweetcrust) case, filled with raw apple slices and a light vanilla egg-custard mixture, then baked.
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Tarte Normande
This tart showcases ingredients from Normandy: the sweet pastry case is baked blind, then filled with apple sticks sautéed in Calvados, and a cream-egg mixture. The tart is then baked and dusted with icing sugar when cold.
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Lime meringue tart
For this delicious tart, you will see how the crisp, sweet pastry is the perfect foil for the distinct taste and slight sharpness of the lime filling and, of course, the smoothness of the Italian meringue topping.
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Source
Based on a recipe from the INBP (French professional bakery institute).More recipes?
This recipe uses (among others) | Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Lobster Thermidor, Rum babas, Gâteau Basque , Prune Far, Walnut short bread, ... All |
| Icing sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Crust for tea, Walnut short bread, Succès praliné (praline meringue), Arizona cupcakes, Almond dacquoise, ... All |
| Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cream sauce with Vin Jaune, Chocolate almond cookies, Lobster Thermidor, Flognarde, Sauce Normande (for fish), ... All |
| Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Génoise (Genoa sponge), Surprise eggs, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Hamburgers, Prune Far, ... All |
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