Holiday Tarts Recipes

Ingredients :

Basic Pastry

2 eggs

2/3 cup brown sugar, packed

2/3 cup corn syrup

3 tbsp soft butter

1/4 tsp salt

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/4 tsp cinnamon

1/4 tsp almond extract

1/4 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup chopped mixed candied fruit

1/4 cup currants

1/4 cup chopped walnuts

Method :

Have ready pans for 32 tiny tarts - 2 inches (5cm) in diameter. Roll pastry very thin and cut 32 rounds 3 inches (7.5cm) in diameter with a cookie cutter. Line tart pans with these rounds. Heat oven to 450F (220C). Beat eggs lightly. Beat in sugar, corn syrup, butter, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, almond extract and vanilla. Stir in fruit and nuts. Spoon this mixture into pastry-lined tart pans filling each about 2/3 full.

Bake 10 minutes at 450F (220C), then reduce oven temperature to 325F (160C) and continue baking about 10 minutes more or until filling is set and pastry browned. Loosen tarts where filling has bubbled up over crust so that they don't stick and then allow tarts to cool to lukewarm in pans. Invert pans on tea towel and let tarts drop out. Finish cooling on racks.

Makes 32 small tarts

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