Swedish Tarts Recipes

Steps:

• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Add egg and extracts. Blend in flour. Cover and chill for 1-2 hours or overnight. Preheat oven to 375°. Using ungreased sandbakkelse molds, press 1 tablespoon dough into each mold. Bake cookies in molds until they appear set and just begin to brown around the edges, 10-12 minutes. Cool cookies for 2-3 minutes in molds. When cool to the touch, remove from molds. To remove more easily, gently tap with a knife and carefully squeeze the sides of the mold.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Pastry:.
• Stir together sugar and flour, cut in butter in small pieces and rub with your fingers until evenly mixed, with a fork stir in egg yolk then compress mixture with your hands until it holds together.
• Use the pastry to line a 9" springform pan, pressing dough up sides about 1"
• Filling.
• Break almond paste into small pieces, put in mixer bowl, mix in sugar and flour until combined, add the eggs and egg white one at a time blending smoothly, then mix in the almond extract.
• Pour the filling into your pastry lined pan, bake for 70 minutes (check at 60) or until top is golden brown ,.
• Let cool 5 minutes while you make the glaze.
• Glaze
• Blend powdered sugar smoothly with milk, spread over top of the tart.
• When tart is cool remove the rim and serve. Tart can be store for 2 days in an airtight container or freeze for longer storage.
• Note s.
• For a little less sweetness, you can skip the glaze.
• If making individual tarts bake for 30 minutes until richly browned on top.