- Make the Sweet Pastry and Crème Pâtissière following each recipe instruction.
- Preheat oven to 180°C (350°F/Gas 4).
- Roll out pastry to line the tart tin.
- Line the pastry shell with greaseproof paper and beans or rice (if you don't have baking beans) - Blind bake the pastry for 10 minutes - or until pastry is just cooked.
- Fill the pastry with Crème Pâtissière, peel and core the apple, sliced thin and arrange over the top of the tart.
- bake for 20-30 minutes or until the pastry is cooked / the apples are golden. Leave to cool.
- Mix the apricot jam with 1tbs of warm water, brush over the apples to make them shines.
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- ½ cup (115gr) powdered sugar
- ¼ oz (10gr) plain all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup (30gr) cornstarch / cornflour
- 6 egg yolks
- ½ oz (15gr) butter
- 2¼(560ml) milk
- 1 vanilla pod
- Whisk the egg yolk and half of the sugar until pale and creamy. Stir in cornflour and flour, mix together.
- In a saucepan, put milk, vanilla pod, the remaining sugar and bring just to the boil.
- Strain half of the mixture over the egg yolk mixture, stirring continuously.
- Pour back the egg yolk mixture to the milk saucepan and bring to boil, stirring constantly - boil for about 2 minutes, stir in the butter and leave to cool.
- Transfer to bowl, lay plastic wrap on the surface to prevent a skin forming. Can be refrigerate up to 2 days.
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- 2 ¾ cups (340gr) plain all-purpose flour
- 5 ½ oz (150gr) unsalted butter
- ¾ cup (90gr) powdered sugar
- 2 eggs, beaten
- pinch of salt
- Sift the flour, salt and sugar onto a work surface, make a well in the centre, put the butter into the well and rub in with your fingertips until the mixtures resembles breadcrumbs.
- Add the eggs, bring them together with your hands and knead them a few times to make a smooth dough.
- Roll into ball, wrap with plastic and put in fridge for about an hour.
- Roll out the pastry into a circle on lightly floured surface, trim the edge, pinch up the pastry edge to make an even border raise slightly above the rim of the tin, slide onto baking tray.
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- 280gr all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 125gr butter, softened
- 100gr powdered sugar
- 100gr brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 120 ml buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 200gr semisweet chocolate chips
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Cream together butter, white sugar, and brown
sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg, then stir in the buttermilk and
vanilla.
- Sift together the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt) and slowly add them into the batter, mixing until just incorporated.
- Stir in chocolate chips and chill for 30 minutes.
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in the preheated oven, bake for about 10-12 minutes for large whoopies or until cakes are left with slight impression when touched with a finger.
Filling Suggestion : Fluffy Marshmallow Filling
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- Rounded marshmallow / marshmallow log (snip them in two)
- Red stripes paper straws
- Rounded choco ball/mini bubblegum
- Bowl of water
- White Sugar
- Paper towel
- Crisco
- "North Pole" signs (get the FREE printable design HERE)
- Scissor
- Glue
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- Have everything ready, print out the Printable North Pole Signage Template and cut them, prepare bowl of water, paper towel, container for the sugar. Tips: If you cannot find a rounded marshmallow, you can snip marshmallow log in two.
- Skewer your marshmallow at one end with a toothpick and quickly submerge it in the water and remove. Dab the excess water with paper towel and sprinkle generously with sugar.
- Remove the sprinkled marshmallow from the toothpick and stack them.
- Snip the paper straw in two and grease them with crisco.
- Insert the paper straw into your stacked marshmallow, snip the top end if they are too long. Glue the choco ball / mini gumball on top of the paper straw ( you can use glue/melted chocolate/icing sugar). Glue the North Pole Sign to the paper straw.
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