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Blackcurrant maid of honour tarts
Makes 12
Ingredients
- 375g ready-rolled puff pastry
- 300g full-fat cottage cheese
- 50g ground almonds
- 50g caster sugar
- finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- 2 egg yolks
- 25g butter, melted
- 150g blackcurrants
- icing sugar, for dusting
Equipment
- 12-cup bun tin, ungreased
Method
Preheat the oven to 200ºC/400ºF/ Gas 6. Cut the pastry into 12 circles and use to line the bun tin.
To make the filling, tip the cottage cheese into a bowl and stir in the almonds, sugar, lemon zest, egg yolks and butter. Fold in 100g of the blackcurrants. Spoon the mixture into the pastry cases. Bake for about 20 minutes, until the filling is golden and the pastry is crisp and brown. Leave to cool slightly, before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
Meanwhile, warm the remaining blackcurrants in a pan until juicy. Spoon 2-3 onto the top of each tart, dust with icing sugar and serve at once.
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