You don’t need to be a pastry whizz to create these simple yet stunning individual Mango and Almond Tarts. Sprinkle with icing sugar and serve with your choice of thick cream or ice cream.
Mango and Almond Tarts Recipe
Serves 4
Ingredients:
125g butter, at room temperature
½ cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract or vanilla paste
2 eggs
1 lime, finely grated rind and 1 tbsp juice
1 cup almond meal
¼ cup plain flour
1 large mango, sliced
icing sugar, to serve
thick cream, to serve (optional)
Method:
Preheat oven to 180C. Grease and line the base of 4cm x 7cm fluted flan tins. Put butter, caster sugar, vanilla, eggs, lime rind and juice into a food processor and pulse until well combined. Add almond meal and flour. Pulse until just combined.
Spoon almond mixture into prepared pans and top with 3-4 slices of mango.
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until cooked through when tested with a skewer. Remove from oven. Stand to cool for 15 minutes before removing tarts and transferring to a wire rack. Sprinkle with icing sugar to serve and thick cream on the side if using.