Easy Sweet Shortcrust Pastry

Making your own pastry really is easy and contains far healthier ingredients than the ready-made shop bought pastry. And if I'm honest it tastes far better too.

A little tip I'd like to share is to double the ingredients, line a tart tray and store it in the freezer until you fancy making a tart.

Let's get into the recipe for our easy sweet shortcrust pastry, which is perfect for tarts, especially;

• Chocolate & Marshmallow Tart

• Caramel Pecan & Pumpkin Pie

• Egg Custard Tart

Happy Baking!

The Chai Home 😋

INGREDIENTS

Makes enough for a 25cm tart dish

• 1 & 1/2 cups of plain flour

• pinch of salt

• 120g of cold butter

• 25g of caster sugar

• 1x egg yolk

• zest of 1 lemon (optional)

• cold water

METHOD

Add all of the ingredients to a large mixing bowl and rub the ingredients together between your fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.

using your hands work the dough into a ball. If it's too crumbly add a tsp of cold water. Add more if needed. Cover with cling-film and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Lightly dust your worktop with some flour and roll-out with a rolling pin to your desired shape.

Bake as your recipe requires.