Rich shortcrust pastry

Learn how to make a perfect rich shortcrust pastry at home. You will use this
for yor tarts, cookies for coffee or other typical sweet creations. Enjoy!

Servings: 6 people

Author: Roberto

Prep Time
20 minutes

Resting time in fridge
1 hour

Total Time
1 hour, 20 minutes

Course:

Basic ingredient

Cuisine:

French Italian

Keywords:

quick easy Tarts Basic

🧂 Ingredients

250 gr butter

cold from the fridge
500 gr flour '00'
2 eggs

cold from the fridge
150 gr icing sugar
1 organic lemon

Instructions

1 Start putting into the mixer the butter and the flour.
2 Mix them at medium speed, until you obtain the texture of sand, due to the fat
mixing with the flour. Hint. turn on and off the mixer frequently, so it does
not make the butter warm.
3 With the mixer off, add the icing sugar, the beaten eggs and some lemon peel,
then mix all the ingredients at minimum speed.
4 Remove the dough from the mixer, shape it with the hands and wrap it with film
for food. Your rich shortcrust is pastry is ready, you just need to cool it
again to work it. Put it into the fridge, where it will rest for 1 hour (up to 3
days).
5 When you need to use the rich shortcrust pastry, remove it from the fridge and
hit it with a rolling pin.
6 Then roll it out between two layers of baking paper, until it is as thick as you
need it. Enjoy!