Kitchen princess recipes

Strawberry tart

Tart dough: 3-1/2 tbsp unsalted butter

3 tbsp sugar

1 egg yolk

1 cup soft flour

A little bit of milk (optional)

Custard: 1 egg yolk

3 tbsp sugar

2 tbsp sifted flour

3/4 cup milk

2 tbsp unsalted butter

A little bit of vanilla

Fruit for decoration: 1 container of strawberries

Tart:

1. Leave out the butter at room temperature so it will soften. Enable mix the butter and sugar with a whisk. When it becomes creamy, add the egg yolk and whisk some more.

2. Sift flour into the bowl from step one and mix when the dough becomes crumbly, make one big lump with your hands. If the dough doesn't stay together you can add milk to make it a little moist.

3. Sprinkle flour on the board and on the rolling pin. Roll the dough into a round flat piece about 8 inches in diameter and 1/4 inc thick. Place Dough in a pie plate and use your fingers to make it fit. Cut off the extra dough from the side and poke holes in the bases using a fork.

4. Bake in oven at 180°C/350°F for 25 minutes. Cool on a cooling rack.

Custard:

1. In a bowl, mix the egg yolk sugar and sift the flour with a wooden spoon. Heat milk up until it is  just about to boil. And then add to the bowl. Whisk well.

2. Put the mixer from step one into a sauce pan and simmer over low heat. Stir like you're scooping the mix from the bottom of the pan.

3. When the bubbles start forming in the cream and I thickens, you can take it off the heat. If lumps form you should crush them.

4.Cut the butter into small pieces and put them in the pan from step two. As a vanilla too. Once butter is melted, play the sauce pan and a big gold filled with ice and stir until completely cool. Once cool pour into tart dough. Place strawberries on top and done.