Another foodblogging event. This is a one-off event hosted by Spittoon Extra. The bakewell tart is a classic English dessert made with shortcrust pastry, a spread of jam and frangipane.
I got my recipe from the great Jamie Oliver's book Jamie's Dinners. I've not eaten or seen the bakewell tart before.. so, I do hope this is the right taste. haha
Serves 8
Shortcrust Pastry
125g butter
100g icing sugar (no sugar, no icing sugar. so i used honey)
pinch of salt
255g flour
2 egg yolks
2 tbsp cold milk or water
Cream together butter, sugar and salt. Then rub in the flour and egg yolks - you can do this by hand or food processor. When the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs, add the cold milk or water. Pat and gently work the mixture together until u have a ball of dough, then flour it lightlyand roll it into a large sausage shape - or as u want it to be. Wrap the dough on clingfirm and place in the fridge to rest for at least an hour. Remove from fridge, roll it and line a 11 inch tart tin and place in the freezer for an hour. Preheat oven to 180 C, take the pastry case out of the freezer and bake for around 15 minutes, or until lightly golden. Remove from the over, and turn the heat down to 170 C.
Frangipane Recipe
150 blanched whole almonds
300g butter (if u have a shallow tin, u might wanna reduce it by 1/3)
150g caster sugar (Jamie suggested !! 300g !! I used 200g, but i think 150 is good enough)
3 eggs
6 tbsp strawberry jam
a handful of sliced blanched almonds
Blitz the whole almonds in a food processor until u have a fine powder and put this into a bowl. Now cream the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add this to the almonds with lightly beaten eggs and fold in until completely mixed and smooth. Place in the fridge to firm up slightly.
Smear jam over the bottom of the pastry case, pour the chilled frangipane mixture on top, and sprinkle some sliced blanched almonds. Bake the tart for about 40 minutes, or until the almond mixture has become firm and golden on the outside but is still soft in the middle. Allow to cool for 30 minutes and serve.
Spread some jam. It's the uber sweet cranberry jam.
my mistake. the filling was too much, in the end it spilled out. :/
see the sides.. pppfff
It was great!
The tart was very aromatic. The almond made it smelled really good. It was a bit sweet, maybe because of the cranberry jam. Pastry was good too. flaky and short. But it takes like 2 hours to make it causes u have to fridge it and freeze it. Overall it was good 
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