Do you remember the delicious cakes that your grandmother or mother baked when you were barely taller than the table? Those aromas with the flavor of freshly made hazelnut cream. How nostalgic! If you want to propose a simple and quick recipe with hazelnut cream to your guests for an informal dinner or an impromptu lunch, we offer you three! Are you ready? Let's get started.
Hazelnut cream tart
The hazelnut cream tart is a delicious dessert, simple and quick to make, suitable for a tasty breakfast. Are you ready to wake up your home with the scent of hazelnut cream? We give you the doses for a 24 cm tart with a low level of difficulty and a preparation time of 30 minutes.
The ingredients for the hazelnut cream tart shortcrust pastry are
- 3 egg yolks
- 150 grams of icing sugar
- 250 grams of butter
- 450 grams of flour
- 1 tablespoon instant baking powder
- The grated zest of an untreated lemon and our hazelnut cream.
The ingredients to fill the soft hazelnut cream tart are: our hazelnut cream and 40 grams of crunchy chopped hazelnuts for decoration.
Preparation of the hazelnut cream tart
- Put the cold butter cut into cubes and the flour into the mixer
- Knead until you obtain a grainy mixture
- Add the icing sugar and continue kneading
- Add the egg yolks one at a time, mixing until you obtain a soft and homogeneous mixture
- Wrap the pastry obtained in transparent film and let it rest in the fridge for at least 40 minutes
- Cut about ¼ of the dough to keep for the final covering
- Cover the cake pan with baking paper
- Shape the pastry with your hands so that it adheres well to both the bottom and the sides of the pan. Don't create too double a layer of pastry or our hazelnut cream tart will be too thin
- Poke small holes in the dough with a fork
- Spread the hazelnut cream evenly to your liking
- Cover the tart with the shortcrust pastry strips you saved
- Add the chopped hazelnuts as an ornament
- Bake for about 50 minutes at 180° C
- Once the cake is out of the oven, let it cool a little.
You can bring it to the table!
