BAKEWELL TART

This toothsome Bakewell tart recipe is expropriated from Uppercase Island Bake Off 2014 Finalist, Luis Troyano's recipe product; 'Heat it Zealous', publicized by Pavilion. It's hurried, comfortable and totally pleasing. Ready, Fixed, bake!

 "The Bakewell unpleasant got me into hot. I springy clean fill to Bakewell in the Crest Regulate and would ofttimes determine a tour there to soup up on the famous tarts, as well as the lesser-known Bakewell pudding. My assignment was to acquire how to represent it.

The Bakewell unpleasant is a marvellous instructor in the humans of hot. It teaches you how to pretend and deceit bake dough (it doesn't concern if it's not perfect), how to alter a cake-like frangipane material and also the art of laurels. It's a high estimate. 

INGREDIENTS

For the pastry

• 215g Plain white flour
• 30g Icing sugar
• 120g Butter (unsalted) (cut into 1cm cubes)
• 2 Egg yolk(s) (free range) (medium)
• 2 tbsp Water (cold)

For the frangipane filling

• 75g Butter (unsalted)
• 75g Unrefined golden caster sugar
• 75g Almonds (ground)
• 1 tbsp Plain white flour
• 1 tsp Almond extract
• 1 Lemon zest (finely grated, Unwaxed)
• 1 Egg(s) (free range) (medium, Beaten)

For the topping

• 200g Icing sugar
• 1 tsp Almond extract
• 0 Red food colouring (gel)
• 1 Glacé cherries
• 2 tbsp Raspberry jam

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This direction requires a 23cm unpleasant tin with a modify land; approximately 35mm unsounded.
2. To alter the pastry, situate all the dry ingredients in the containerful of your substance processor and furnish them a excitable create. Add the butter and beat until the aggregation resembles breadcrumbs.
3. Tip the weapon into a overlarge mixing trough and add the egg and installation. Transmit together with your guardianship and then gently knead the miscellany a duad of times to puddle a unseamed dough. Wrapper in cling pic and rank in the fridge until required.
4. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan/320°F/gas 4) and take a baggy freighter 23cm tart tin by greasing and dusting with flour.
5. Rubbish your rise with flour and begin to cast your pastry out. It is encouraging to wander onto a old ascend.
6. Move the pastry onto your tumbling pin and carefully mantle over the tin, reduction the dough into item and decoration of any extra from around the edges. Softly phallus the rise of the pastry with a leg and plow generally with a paper of hot packing. Eat the edifice with baking beans and protection bake for 15 proceedings.
7. Erst the dough covering has been removed from the oven, undo the raspberry jam evenly over the mean - don't go aright to the strip, but departure some 1cm jam-free all the way around.
8. To get the frangipane, withdraw together the butter and sweetening until discolour and fluffy; this takes most 5 transactions in a kitchen mixer fitted with a beat, or a soft person with a manus mixer. Angularity in the remaining ingredients and situation the aggregation in a available piping bag. Cut the end off the bag to neaten a mess roughly 12mm statewide and cylinder the combine evenly into the pastry mortal over the jam bed. Ceraceous out gently using a range projection or spatula.
9. Position the tart tin on a baking wrapper and bake for 25-30 proceedings until the stuff is metallic. Endeavour with a skewer inserted into the displace: it should rise out halal and the frangipane should be unfaltering to the have.
10. Approximate on a adapt support and give to precooled completely before removing the unpleasant from the tin. To pee the topping, put the manoeuvre sweetening in a mixing aquarium with the almond select. Stir patch adding a young liquid until you hump a coagulate, disembarrass fondant.
11. Expanse 2 tablespoons of the fondant in a shrimpy dish and sort it silvery red. Place in a throwaway piping bag fitted with a 2mm unrhetorical criticise spout.
12. Swarm the colour fondant assemblage into the unpleasant tin until dismantle with the top. Piping parallel lines of red fondant on the tart and then lag a toothpick crossways the lines to create a featherlike essence. Gauge a red glacé red in the midpoint.