Cherry Tartlets

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Ingredients

Ingredients for 6 Tartlets

  • 1⅔ cups 250 g Whole wheat flour
  • 1 stick plus 3½ tbsp 170 g Butter, or untempered vegetable margarine, room temperature
  • ¼ cup 85 g Honey
  • 2 Egg yolks
  • Zest of 1 lemon
  • 5 oz 150 g Hazelnuts, ground
  • 18 oz 500 g Sweet cherries, weighed without pits
  • 3 tbsp 60 g Honey, for brushing
  • 6 tbsp Cherry or apricot marmalade
  • 1 tbsp Kirsch cherry brandy
  • Confectioner’s sugar for dusting
  • Whole wheat flour for the work surface

Instructions

  • Put the whole wheat flour on a work surface.
  • Create a depression in the middle and put in the butter, honey, egg yolk, and lemon zest.
  • Knead to a dough.
  • Chill for half an hour.
  • Preheat oven to 375 °F (190 °C).
  • Roll out to 4–5 mm thick on a floured work surface.
  • Cut out six 4½–5in circles (about 12cm) and lay them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
  • Warm the honey and brush on the circles.
  • Sprinkle hazelnuts on the honey and spread the cherries on top.
  • Bake for about 15 minutes.
  • Dust lightly with confectioner’s sugar and place back in the oven for another 3 minutes.
  • Warm the marmalade with the kirsch.
  • Using a spatula, remove the tartlets from the baking sheet, and glaze with the marmalade.
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Course Fruit / Tarts
Cuisine Austria / European