Mini Bakewell tarts

Mini Bakewell tarts

They may look girly, but even the toughest boy will love these mid-afternoon treats

Difficulty and servings

Easy

makes 12

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hour 15 minutes plus cooling

Method

  1. Roll the pastry to the thickness of a 20p coin and use it to line 12 small tart tins. Trim level with the top of the tin and chill.
  2. For the frangipane, beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, beat in the eggs, lemon and vanilla a little at a time. Fold in the almonds and flour in one go.
  3. Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Spread 1 tsp raspberry jam in each base, then fill with frangipane to the top of the pastry and level off. Scatter or arrange flaked almonds over half of each tart. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the tops are golden and springy. Leave to cool in the tin.
  4. While the tarts are still warm, brush the almond-covered halves with a little apricot jam. Mix 4 tbsp icing sugar with enough water to make a spreadable icing and add enough colour to make it pale pink. Ice the non-almond halves and leave to set.

Per tart

516 kcalories, protein 7.6g, carbohydrate 46.9g, fat 34.4 g, saturated fat 13.0g, fibre 2.1g, salt 0.35 g

Recipe from olive magazine, April 2008.

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  • 23 July 2009

    florantilles commented on this recipe

    I made double the quantity of my own shortcrust pastry and turned them into 2 large flans with just the almonds, leaving out the pink icing sugar. They were for an american supper party

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  • 11 August 2009

    Mave commented on this recipe

    I found that the amount that the franzipan recipe made would accommodate at least 2 dozen tarts. I would suggest that pastry is a richer more scrummy bake when 1/2 plain and 1/2 SR flour is used,and I prefer to leave off the icing. Overall though a lovely and well received recipe.

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  • 15 October 2009

    Debz commented on this recipe

    Mini Bakewells? Cornish congress tarts you mean! Just need a cross of sugar icing on the top, and leave out the apricot jam.

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  • 14 November 2010

    Anna Smith commented on this recipe

    I thought they were lovely and ate them all in one go!

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  • 30 November 2010

    sullie rated and commented on this recipe

    3 stars

    Really nice and they look really good.

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  • 01 March 2011

    trying2babravecook commented on this recipe

    I would love to make this recipe BUT really dislike almonds If it says almonds in a recipe I have to forget about it. What could I use instead ??? Thanks new to site.l

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  • 03 March 2011

    mother27 commented on this recipe

    just made these tarts and thought "thats a lot of filling" .there was enough to fill 24 tarts! suggest you only use half the quantity of ingredients for the franzipane filling

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  • 15 July 2011

    volechef rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Fantastic recipe. I make this with the pastry from Marco Pierre White's famous Lemon Tart and it tastes even more delicious with home made pastry. http://bit.ly/9B67fK Using mini cake cases this recipe makes 72 mini tarts, which come in at under 100 calories per tart...a bite size treat that doesn't mean consuming 500 calories of sugar.

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  • 06 October 2011

    newblueroxie commented on this recipe

    Doesn't the pastry need to be baked blind first?

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  • 10 March 2013

    GeorgiePorgeous rated and commented on this recipe

    2 stars

    These looked lovely but i was slightly disappointed with the flavour. Not almondy enough and i think it could have done withoutthe lemon zest and vanilla. Will make again but tweak recipe and omit the lemon and vanilla and add a few drops of almond essence instead.

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  • 07 April 2013

    tr1shh commented on this recipe

    Followed this recipe to the letter - for 12 mini tarts there was about three times more frangipane than necessary - looking at other recipes you would need half the ingredients shown here.

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  • 23 May 2013

    helenakeys rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I really loved this recipe! Everyone who tried one of these said they were delicious. I especially loved the pink icing - although, instead of icing it only on one side, I drizzled it all over the mini tarts with a piping bag. Delicious!

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

makes 12

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 1 hour 15 minutes plus cooling

Ingredients

  • 375g pack shortcrust pastry
  • 4 tbsp raspberry jam
  • 50g flaked almonds
  • 1 tbsp apricot jam , sieved
  • 4 tbsp icing sugar
  • pink food colouring

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Per tart

516 kcalories, protein 7.6g, carbohydrate 46.9g, fat 34.4 g, saturated fat 13.0g, fibre 2.1g, salt 0.35 g

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