Cherry Tartlets
Ingrediënten
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
Instructies
- 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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