The best butter tart pastries recipes - 4 recipes
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Ingredients
- 2 oz red spaghetti
- 2 oz green spaghetti
- 2 cups shrimp
- Pepper
- Salt
- Paprika
- 1/2 cup cream cheese
Method
- Boil the red and green spaghetti separately in salted water until al dente.
- Fry the shrimp in a pan with plenty of salt, pepper and paprika.
- Add 1/2 cup of cream cheese, and stir through until combined.
- Arrange the cooked spaghetti in an alternating pattern on a plate.
- Top with the creamy shrimp sauce
- Garnish, and serve!
Top rated Butter tart pastries recipes
Lemon Meringue Tartlets
![Lemon Meringue Tartlets](/media/screen-shot-2014-03-05-at-12-42-54-pm_crop.jpg/tsp/lemon-meringue-tartlets.jpg)
By flutelah
The delicate shortbread crust plays well with the rich, zesty lemon cream and the sweet, airy meringue to top
- Shortbread pastry
- 150 g of flour
- a pinch of baking powder
- 75 g of sugar
- 1 orange
- 75 g of softened butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon of water
- Lemon cream
- 4 medium-sized lemons
- 60 g of water
- 150 g of sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 soup spoon of Maïzena (corn starch)
- Italian meringue
- 60 g of water
- 150 g of sugar
- 105 g of egg whites
- 38 g of sugar
Orange Cranberry Biscones with Blackberry Coulis
![Orange Cranberry Biscones with Blackberry Coulis](/media/dole-biscones-024-jpg_crop.jpeg/tsp/orange-cranberry-biscones-with-blackberry-coulis.jpg)
By blwashnock, Brenda Sweet and Savory
This delicious biscone is a brunch item I make every year just before Christmas, it's fluffy and decadent with a bl...
- 1 & ½ cups Frozen Cranberries
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons light brown sugar
- 4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter
- 1 tablespoon finely shredded orange peel
- 16 ounces sour cream
- 2 egg yolks, beaten (reserve the whites for later)
- *2 egg whites mixed with 1t water
- Glaze:
- 2 cups powered sugar
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 tablespoons water
- Blackberry Coulis:
- 2 cups frozen marion blackberries
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
Apple Tart
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By amel, http://amelyahyaoui.wix.com/fares
Elegant dessert
- Crust
- 1 1/4 cups unbleached all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-incj cubes
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tablespoon ice water or more.
- Filling
- 8 large about 4 pounds Golden Delicious or other tart apples
- 1/2 lemon
- 1/2 cup sugar plus 1 tablespoon for the tart top
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
low fat version of russian "piroshki"
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By european cutie, European Cutie
Here is a low fat version I made of my grandma katrina's "piroshki" traditionally they are meat and cabbage filled ...
- 1 medium head cabbage grated ( I grade this on a cheese grater the old stand up aluminum kind)
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 tsp. dried thyme leaves
- 1 tsp. salt and pepper to taste
- Flaky Butter Pastry (recipe follows)
- 1 egg
- salt and pepper to taste
- extra virgin olive oil
- Smart Balance buttery sticks
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tbs low fat milk
- 1 tbs lemon juice
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