If you love pastry you'll adore this recipe for crumbly walnut pastries filled with chocolate spread. Eat just as they are or warm with cream or even ice-cream.
Prep Time30 minutesmins
Cook Time20 minutesmins
Resting Time30 minutesmins
Total Time1 hourhr20 minutesmins
Course: Afternoon Tea, Dessert
Cuisine: British
Keyword: chocolate spread, pastry, walnuts, wholemeal spelt flour
75gplain flour (all purpose flour)(or use more wholemeal spelt)
½tspbaking powder
75ggolden caster sugar
50gbutter
1large egg(I used a duck egg)
1tbspwater
16tspchocolate spread
a little milk for brushing
icing sugar for dusting(optional)
Instructions
Pastry
Pulse the walnuts in a food processor until roughly chopped.
50 g walnuts
Add the flours, baking powder, sugar and butter and pulse again until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs.
75 g wholemeal spelt flour, 75 g plain flour (all purpose flour), 75 g golden caster sugar, 50 g butter, ½ tsp baking powder
Break in the egg and add the water, then pulse again until the crumbs are starting to come together.
1 large egg, 1 tbsp water
Bring the dough together with your hands to form a ball.
Cover with a wax cloth or plastic bag and leave in a cook place for half an hour, or overnight if that suits you better.
Filled Pastries
Set the oven to 180℃ (160℃ fan, 350℉, Gas 4).
Roll the pastry out to about ¼ cm (an 1/8 of an inch) in thickness.
Cut 4 x 10 cm diameter circles out using the top of the tart tins as a guide. Put to one side.
Re-roll the pastry, if necessary and cut 4 more circles to line the tart cases. Use the off cuts to fill in any gaps.
Spread four teaspoons of your chosen chocolate spread over each base.
16 tsp chocolate spread
Top with the pastry circles and press the sides in to seal.
Brush each one with milk and place a walnut half on top of each one.
a little milk for brushing
Bake in the centre of the oven for twenty minutes or until golden.
Leave to cool then dust with icing sugar, if liked.
icing sugar for dusting
Notes
If you prefer to make your pastry by hand, you'll need to roughly grind the walnuts first. Then rub the butter into the flours, baking powder and sugar with your fingertips until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Tip in the walnuts. Add the egg and water and stir with a flat bladed knife until the mixture is clumping. Bring it together with your hands and proceed as per the recipe.Please note: calories and other nutritional information are per serving. They’re approximate and will depend on exact ingredients used.