Chestnut Tart
(Adapted from a Japanese baking book)
[Recipe]
Ingredients
Tart dough
75g plain
flour
25g bread
flour
10g fine
sugar
1/4 tsp
salt
50g butter
25g milk
Crème
d’amande
40g butter
1/2 egg
40g almond
powder
20g icing
sugar
20g chopped
chestnuts
Marron cream
100g
chestnuts
100g milk
30g sugar
Method:
1. Dough:
mix flours, sugar & salt together in a medium bowl. Rub in butter till
they resembles sand consistency. Add in milk till combine into a dough. Cling
wrap & put in fridge for 1hr
2. Crème
d’amande: Mix butter & sugar till combine with a spatula. Slowly add in egg
mixture & mix till combined. Add in almond powder & mix till smooth.
Stir in chopped chestnuts. Cling wrap & put in fridge for 1hr
3. Marron
cream: Blend into a paste & chill in fridge
4. Take
tart dough (1) from fridge. Roll out into a diameter about 22cm. Spread (2) on
top. Fold in the dough
slightly. Put in fridge for 30mins
5. Bake in
a preheated oven at 180C for 30mins. Once cooled, spread (3) onto tart
