Speak english : Strawberry and Almond Tart
Professeure d’anglais près de Pont-Audemer, Nicky Dussartre propose une rubrique publiée chaque semaine dans l’Éveil de Pont-Audemer.
Hello everybody in and around Pont-Audemer, soon it will be the strawberry season. Nowadays you can get strawberries at almost any time of the year in the shops, but they don’t always have very much flavour. If they don’t have much flavour, the best thing to do is to cook them. This week I’ve got a recipe for a strawberry and almond cake. I made it in a shallow tart dish, but you could also make it in a cake tin, you’ll just need to cook it a bit longer. This tart can be made for a dessert - it’s delicious served warm with crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream. Or you can make it for an afternoon tea cake, served cold with your favourite cuppa !
Strawberry and Almond tart
You will need :
90g butter (not too cold, or it will be difficult to mix with the sugar)
200g sugar
100g ground almonds
2 eggs
180g flour mixed with 2 tsp baking powder
100ml milk
300g strawberries - ‘hulled’
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C and grease a 28cm tart dish or a cake tin with some butter.
2. Cream together the butter and sugar
3. Add the ground almonds and the 2 eggs and mix well until you have a smooth batter.
4. Fold in the flour and baking powder.
5. Add the milk, stir well.
6. Tip the mixture into your greased dish and spread it evenly
7. Slice the hulled strawberries over the mixture and sprinkle with sugar
8. Bake in the oven for 40mins for a tart or 50mins for a cake.
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