Russian shortcrust tart
Ingredients: Ingredients for shortcrust pastry: 250 g all-purpose flour 150 g butter 40 g sugar 2 tbsp bitter cacao 1 egg Filling: 500 g cottage cheese 400 ml sour cream 200 g sugar 4 eggs 2 instant pudding (vannila flavor 2 x 37g) 1 orange grated zest Grated shortcrust pastry: 120 g all purpose flour 100 g butter 40 g sugar 2 tbsp bitter cacao Preparation: Preparation for shortcrust pastry: Place the flour, cacao, sugar and cubes of butter in a bowl. Using only the tips of your fingers, rub the butter into the flour until it resembles bread crumbs. This will take a few minutes but soon you will have flour bread crumbs. Pour the egg into your bread crumb mixture and stir with the blade of a knife – using a knife saves you from getting eggy flour stuck all over your hands. It will start to form ‘clumps’ of dough when it is spread evenly. After a few squishes with your hands, you w...
