Almond tart- 01.11.2012

Today, i had made this almond tart for teabreak.  My son's favourite, he took the most of it.  I had used Kevin Chai's fruity cake recipe for the sweet pastry and the filling were adapted from my CC teacher's almond cake.

Sweet Pastry ingredient:

A)
125g butter
60g icing sugar


B)
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
1 egg yolk and 1/2 egg white


C)
200 to 220g cake flour

Cream  butter and icing sugar and vanilla essence
Add egg yolk and white and cream till smooth
Add the flourand mix until well blended.


Filling ingredient:
187.5g of butter
125g fine sugar
2 eggs
125g plain flour, sifted
1/2 tsp baking powder
125g ground almond - preheated at 100c for 10 mins


Method:

1. Sieve the plain flour together with baking powder
2.  Cream the butter, sugar and ground almond till light about 5 minutes
3.  Beat in eggs separately
4.  Fold in pre-sieved plain flour and baking powder - mix well
5.  Sccop or pipe out into tarts mould
6.  Bake in moderate temperature at 175 deg C for about 25 mins