Walnut Tart
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
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Pastry
- 1 1⁄2 cups all-purpose flour, plus
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons icing sugar
- 7 tablespoons well-chilled butter, cut into small pieces
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
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Filling
- 1 cup whipping cream, plus
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons whipping cream
- 1 cup icing sugar
- 3⁄4 cup walnuts (ground fine together with the icing sugar)
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 1 pinch cinnamon
- walnut halves
directions
- For pastry: Combine flour and sugar in large bowl.
- Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Blend in yolks and vanilla; gather dough into a ball.
- Turn out on lightly-floured surface.
- Using heel of hand, smear dough a little at a time across surface to blend butter and flour thoroughly.
- Flatten into disc.
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Roll dough out between sheets of wax paper to thickness of 1/8 inch.
- Fit into 11 inch tart pan with removable bottom; trim edges.
- Pierce shell all over with fork; line with foil and fill with pie weights or dry beans.
- Bake until pastry is set, about 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350F.
- Remove beans and foil and bake until crust is golden-brown, about another 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 300F.
- Blend all filling ingredients, except for walnut halves, and pour into crust.
- Bake until filling is set and looks dry, about 35 minutes.
- Cool and decorate with walnut halves.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.