

When the tart has cooled, spoon the icing on top, spreading evenly. Mary Berry’s Bakewell Tart This classic Bakewell tart is topped with feathered icing to give an impressive finish. Spoon the icing into a small piping bag fitted with a No. Place 3 tablespoons of the icing in a separate bowl and add the pink food colouring gel to make a raspberry-coloured icing. Stir in the almond extract and cold water to make a smooth, fairly thick icing. Reduce the oven temperature to 180☌/160☌ fan/350☏/Gas 4 and bake for 25–35 minutes, until golden and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave on a wire rack to cool.įor the icing, sift the icing sugar into a bowl. Spoon the mixture into the pastry case and level out with a palette knife. Add the ground almonds, egg and almond extract and mix together. Bake blind for 15 minutes, then remove the beans and paper and cook for a further 5 minutes to dry out the base.įor the filling, spread the base of the flan with 4 tablespoons of raspberry jam. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Line the pastry case with non-stick baking paper and fill with baking beans. Leave in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface and use to line a 23cm fluted flan tin.

Add the egg and water, mixing to form a soft dough. To make the pastry, measure the flour into a bowl and rub in the butter with your fingertips until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Remove from the heat and carefully pour into a shallow container. Increase the heat and boil for 4 minutes. Add the sugar and bring to the boil over a low heat until the sugar has melted. This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.Piping bag fitted with small plain nozzleįor the jam, place the raspberries in a small deep-sided saucepan and crush them with a masher. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Even though the owner(s) of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The owner(s) of this blog is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics.

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