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Bakewell Tart

This is a real favourite on the tea table. The tart is closely associated with the town of Bakewell located in the neighbouring county of Derbyshire, so we have a lot of local affection for it! To give it a homely taste we use Mrs Povey's jam made from raspberries grown on our farm!

Bakewell Tart

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp raspberry jam - Canalside's own jam made by Mrs Povey's can be found in our farm shop
  • 250 g ground almonds
  • 250 g butter
  • 250 g sugar
  • 2 free range eggs - beaten
  • 250 g plain flour
  • 125 g butter - chilled
  • cold water
  • 100 g icing sugar - to dust tart. An extra 300g is needed if you ice the top

Method

  1. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface and line your flan tin. Leave in the fridge to chill for 30 minutes.
  2. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6 (180C fan).
  3. Line the pastry case with baking parchment and fill with baking beans. Bake blind for about 15 minutes, then remove the beans and parchment and cook for a further five minutes to dry out the base.
  4. For the filing, spread the base of the flan generously with raspberry jam.
  5. Melt the butter in a pan, take off the heat and then stir in the sugar. Add ground almonds and eggs. Pour into the flan tin. Bake for about 35 minutes.
  6. Remove from oven, cool and finally dust with icing sugar.
  7. Optional, raspberry pink feathered icing topping: Sift 300 grams of icing sugar into a bowl. Stir in a teaspoon of almond extract and cold water to make a smooth, fairly thick icing. Place 3 tbsp of the icing in a separate bowl and add pink food colouring gel to make a raspberry coloured icing. Spoon the icing into a small piping bag fitted with a thin (no. 2) plain nozzle. When the tart has cooled, spoon the icing on top, spreading evenly. Pipe parallel lines of pink icing over the white icing, then drag a cocktail stick through the line to create a feathered effect. Leave to set.
Everything you need is in the shop. Our butchers, bakery and deli counters are open seven days - and in season you can pick the fruit for this yourself out on the farm.
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