Shortcrust Pastry: Basic Recipe for a Simple Dough

If you have a basic recipe for shortcrust pastry at hand, you can use it to bake cookies and cake or tart bases. In this practical tip, you will find a recipe that can be made quickly and easily with just a few ingredients.

The basic recipe for the shortcrust pastry: Here’s how

In addition to the ingredients, you will need a bowl, a kitchen scale, and a hand mixer with stir bars and dough hooks or a food processor.

1. Cream 175g of butter with the mixing sticks.
2. Add 100g sugar and mix it all together.
3. Then stir in 1 egg.
4. Then add 300g of flour and a pinch of salt to the shortcrust pastry. Mix this with the dough hook.
5. Knead the dough by hand.
6. Wrap the shortcrust pastry in cling film.
7. Place the dough in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
8. Then continue processing the shortcrust pastry.