Tarts look fancy, but they all start with the same thing: a good, sweet shortcrust pastry shell. This easy shortcrust tart dough, also known as pâte sucrée, bakes into a buttery, shortbread-style ...

Add this Chocolate Tart Crust to your recipe box, it is simple to make and tastes amazing. This shortcrust is buttery rich, ...

When it comes to cooking, I find that the “simplest” recipes are often the hardest to perfect. But my Achilles’ heel, I’m afraid, is shortcrust pastry. I know it should be simple. It only involves ...

MANY amateur cooks, even quite confident ones, find making pastry intimidating, but making a good pie or tart isn’t that hard once you grasp the basic concepts. When flour is mixed with water, ...