Red, White and Blue Tarts
- 1 stick unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup cream
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/4 cup seedless raspberry jam
- 1 basket raspberries
- 1 basket blueberries
- Like miniature shortcakes, these tarts are easy to prepare in advance.
- If you intend to serve them outdoors in warm weather, serve the whipped cream on the side.
- For the dough, beat the butter and sugar with the paddle on medium speed until very soft and light.
- Beat in the vanilla and the yolk and continue beating until smooth and shiny, about 3 more minutes.
- Stop the mixer, sift the cake flour and add to the butter mixture.
- Pulse the mixer on and off to incorporate the flour.
- Scrape the dough onto a piece of plastic, wrap and chill it until firm.
- Roll the chilled cookie dough 1/8-inch thick on a floured surface.
- Line 4-inch tart pans with the disks of dough.
- Fill the tart shell with dried beans and bake at 325 degrees about 25 to 20 minutes, until pale golden.
- Cool off the pans.
- Remove from pans and remove beans.
- Arrange on a clean, paper-covered pan.
- Whip the cream with the sugar until it holds its shape.
- Spread jam in the bottom of the tart shells.
- Make alternating concentric rows of raspberries, blueberries and piped rosettes of whipped cream in the tart shells.
- Pipe the whipped cream with a pastry bag fitted with a 1/2-inch star tube (Ateco #4).
- Serve the rest of the cream on the side.
butter, sugar, vanilla, egg yolk, cake flour, cream, sugar, seedless raspberry jam, basket raspberries, basket blueberries
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/red-white-and-blue-tarts-recipe.html (may not work)