Cups of pâte sablée, ricotta cream and red fruits at Springtime

Hello! Up on the trees new gems are in bloom and everywhere it is the fragrance of earth and green. Let’s start this first Sunday of Springtime by preparing some small cups of pâte sablée, which we are going to fill with a light ricotta cheese cream and decor with red fruits.

The ingredients we need are: 125 gr of flour, 70 gr of butter, 50 gr of caster sugar, a yolk, a sprinkle of salt, seeds of vanilla, cow milk ricotta cheese, red fruits.

1. Work a mixture of flour and small cubes of butter with your hands.
2. Add the caster sugar. Using the caster sugar will help to make a more compact mixture.
3. Then, it’s the turn of a yolk and a small idea of sea salt.
4. Mix until the ingredients are all together and then leave the pâte sablée to rest in the fridge for a couples of hours.
5. Work the mixture without adding much flour, in order to have more humidity, and make little discs of pâte sablée, then place them in buttered moulds.
6. Prod the surface of each cup with a fork and cover it with a piece of greaseproof paper. Then, add a handful of dried pulses.This will help the surface of pâte sablée to bake well without rising much.
7. Bake the cups for about ten minutes (180°C) or at least until they get a golden color.
8. As soon as they get cooler, help yourself with a sac à poche and fill the cups with ricotta cheese cream (prepared with cold cow milk ricotta cheese, seeds of vanilla and some sugar).
9. Decor with red fruits on top.

Your children will love to have these delicious cups any time you are going to prepare and serve them as a genuine light snack. Wishing a beautiful Spring to everybody and, please, keep on staying safe! ❤

Short pastry biscuits in the oven

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  Short pastry biscuits

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  Short pastry biscuits

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  Short pastry biscuits

This early Sunday morning it was crisp air outside and it was the perfect Autumn atmosphere for preparing and baking short pastry biscuits. The kitchen smelled of butter and almonds. The recipe is easy for making inviting crunchy biscuits to enjoy with a cup of coffee or tea.
Ingredients:
225g flour, 50 g almond flour, 160g butter, 100gr icing sugar, 1 egg (about 70gr), a pinch of salt.
Mix together flour, sugar, almond flour, cold butter. Add the egg and a pinch of salt.
Place the mixture in the fridge and leave it to rest for four hours.
Roll out the short pastry on the table, after fixing a sheet of greaseproof paper under it to help the short pastry work be faster and easier. Make your biscuits and bake them in the oven for few minutes. Temperatures can be between 160° and 180°, better if the oven is airy. Decor your biscuits according to your tastes or sprinkle icing sugar like dancing snow on the surface of them.
I hope your day was filled with love celebrating Father’s day .
Enjoy a new week!