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Piccolo Crostata Little Tart
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 20 Minutes
Ready In: 20 Minutes
Servings: 12
little tarts are at all of my family events and these will be at yours too!
Ingredients:
crust
2 cups ap flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 stick butter cold cut in cubes
4 tablespoond cold shortning
1/4 cup white sugar
up too 2 cups whole milk
filling
4 cups caned berries (or threepints fresh)
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoond honey
1 egg yolk
1 pint whipping cream ( whipped with 1 teaspoon cornstarch)
Directions:
1. crust:
2. sift together flour salt sugar cutt in shortning and butter so it looks like sand
3. add tablespoon by tablespoon of milk until it looks like a rough dough, place in fridge for an hour
4. pre-heat oven at 400 and get out a muffin tin and turn upside down so that your holes looks like moutains. butter little moutains well
5. get our dough and with lots of flour roll out everyone says a quarter inch but what it that?? its about the size of a laying nickel so very thin
6. cut out larg circle of dough and place on top of your little muffin tin moutais and bake 10-15 min, unil golen brown and delishes
7. for filling:
8. place your berrys in the blender and wizz up until frothy strain into sauce pan and bring up to a boil add honey corn starch a pinch salt and you egg yolk wisk like crazy to make sure you have no scambles eggs wisk for atleased 8 min. i know its along time but you dont want to get sick, now add butter at the end for a nice finish and shine fold into your whip cream and let everyone put some berry cream into their own piccolo crostata( its great with dark chocolate shaven on top too)
By RecipeOfHealth.com