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How to make sweet tart crust from scratch

September 2, 2012 by Julia 7 Comments

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I’ve been making a lot of tarts lately (both sweet and savory), and wanted to share the basic recipe how to make a slightly sweet and very flaky tart crust from scratch that can serve as a base for various fruit tarts and tartlets.

This tart dough recipe produces an amazingly flaky and light crust, so please follow it closely: I’ll be describing it in a lot of detail, but making a tart crust is super easy once you understand how it works.  This recipe uses 9.5 inch tart pan.

How to make tart crust from scratch: sweet and flaky

How to make tart crust from scratch: sweet and flaky
How to make tart crust from scratch: sweet and flaky
How to make tart crust from scratch: sweet and flaky

You can use this pre-baked tart shell as a base for various tart fillings where the tart crust is pre-baked in advance (as described above), and the filling is prepared separately, as well, and then just added into the pre-baked tart shell, such as in this Blueberry Tart recipe. For other recipes, you will pre-bake this tart shell only for the first 15 minutes, and then you will add a filling and continue baking the tart shell with the filling already in it – as in this breakfast tart. Enjoy, experiment, and I’d love to hear how it turns out for you!

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Here are some other recipes I already made (and posted) for tarts and tartlets:

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How to Make Sweet Tart Crust
Prep Time
20 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 

The basic recipe: how to make a slightly sweet and very flaky tart crust from scratch that can serve as a base for various fruit tarts and tartlets.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Servings: 12 people
Calories: 170 kcal
Author: Julia
Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 10 tablespoons butter cold unsalted
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 1 tablespoon heavy cream
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
  1. Using food processor, pulse the flour, sugar, salt to combine thoroughly.

  2. Cut cold butter into small cubes. Add the butter into the food processor (which already has flour, sugar and salt combined from step 1) and pulse until the consistency becomes that of a coarse meal.

  3. In a small cup, combine the egg yolk, heavy cream and vanilla and stir well together. Add the egg mixture to the food processor and pulse to combine.

  4. Shape the dough into a disk on a foil. I usually do it with my hands and fingers pushing the dough away from its center into a round shape, pressing into the foil. Use a very small amount of flour to dust working surface to avoid dough clinging to the foil. I occasionally bring the tart pan over the tart dough to make sure the round I am making is larger in diameter than a well of my tart pan.

  5. Grease the tart pan. Then, I take the foil and and ease the round into a tart pan, patting it firmly into the bottom and up the sides. Carefully remove the foil. If some pieces of crust fall off, just gently press them back. If your foil gets stuck to the dough, don’t remove it and refrigerate the tart shell as described in step 6. After your crust has been refrigerated for at least an hour, you will be able to remove foil easily.

  6. Extend the dough slightly above the rim to compensate for any shrinkage during baking. Place the tart pan with the dough in the refrigerator for at least an hour. Cover tart pan with plastic.

  7. Preheat oven to 400 F. Line the cold tart shell with a sheet of aluminum oil, with edges hanging over the sides of the tart pan. Place pie weights into the shell. In my case, I used rice and quinoa.

  8. Bake the tart shell for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, lift the foil with weights out of the pan.

  9. Continue baking the tart shell without weights and aluminum foil for 15 minutes, until golden brown color. Let it cool.

Recipe Notes

The recipe uses 9.5 inch tart pan.

Nutrition Facts
How to Make Sweet Tart Crust
Amount Per Serving
Calories 170 Calories from Fat 90
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 10g 15%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 59mg 20%
Sodium 109mg 5%
Potassium 19mg 1%
Total Carbohydrates 16g 5%
Sugars 4g
Protein 2g 4%
Vitamin A 7.1%
Calcium 0.9%
Iron 4.5%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Comments

  1. Mindy

    February 28, 2018 at 8:02 am

    Will this recipe make enough dough to fit a 10.5″ tart pan?

    Reply
    • Julia

      March 1, 2018 at 5:27 pm

      I used a 9.5 inch tart pan, so the amount of dough in this recipe might not be enough to fit a 10.5 inch tart pan.

      Reply
  2. Nada

    January 30, 2018 at 7:44 am

    Hi Julia can u give me the savory tart recipe for making quiche. I would love hearing from you. Thanks a lot.

    Reply
    • Julia

      February 25, 2018 at 1:36 pm

      Yes, I have the recipe for savory tart on my site. Here it is: https://juliasalbum.com/how-to-make-savory-tart-crust-from-scratch-tart-dough-recipe/

      Reply
  3. Corena Leone

    May 22, 2017 at 5:14 pm

    Is there a substitute for heavy cream in this recipient? Would regular milk, almond milk or coconut milk work?

    Reply
  4. Rae

    February 13, 2016 at 3:24 pm

    Dumb question: In all the pictures I see, the tart is not in the pan. Any instructions on how to get it out without breaking it? I assume you have to remove it from the pan before filling it.

    Reply
    • Amanda Contento

      February 27, 2017 at 12:15 am

      Some tart pans have a removable bottom so you lift the bottom up and the sides come away from it.

      Reply

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