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Florentine Tartlets with Frangipane
- Steps
- Ingredients
Steps
- Preheat oven to 180C.
- For sablée pastry. Sift flour, icing sugar and salt into a large glass bowl. Add the butter, using fingertips rub butter into flour mixture until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Mix in egg and knead dough until just combined.
- Place half of the dough in between 2 sheets of baking paper and roll out as thin as possible – approximately 3mm and place on a tray and refrigerate for 10-15 minutes to rest. Reserve remaining dough in fridge for another use.
- For the Frangipane. Add butter and sugar to the chopper attachment of stick blender and blend until thick and creamy, use a spoon to scrape the sides of the chopper if required. Add egg and egg white and process until combined. Add almond meal and process until combined.
- Grease six 8cm loose-based tart pans. Remove chilled pastry from fridge and using a 10cm round pastry cutter, cut discs from pastry and use to line the prepared tart pans and trim any excess pastry.
- Spoon frangipane mix evenly between 6 tart shells, place on a baking tray and bake in oven for 12 – 15 minutes or until cooked through and golden. Remove tartlets from oven and cool for 2 – 3 minutes.
- For the topping. Combine honey, sugar and butter in a medium saucepan, stir over medium heat until sugar is dissolved and mix becomes foamy. Add almonds, cherries and cornflakes and stir gently until combined.
- Place chocolate in a bowl over a saucepan of simmering water, stir chocolate until just melted, spoon into a piping bag, using scissors snip the end to make a small hole. Spoon the topping onto the tarts, then drizzle with chocolate to serve.
- Arrange best 3 tartlets on a presentation plate.
