Vanilla tartlets with mango and orange jam
Ingredients
- • 100 g/ 3.5 oz crumbled plain vanilla biscuits/cookies
- • 7 Tbsp/ ½ cup of coarsely chopped walnuts + 4 Tbsp – to spoon into the tartelettes once they’re baked
- • 200 g/ 7 oz bleached all-purpose flour
- • 1 tsp Bourbon vanilla extract
- • 4 Tbsp white sugar
- • 5 g/ 0.2 oz baking powder
- • The juice of half an orange
- • 1 medium egg
- • 1 tsp fleur de sel
- • 150 g/ 5.3 oz unsalted butter – icy cold
- • 8 Tbsp orange jam
- • Your favourite vanilla cream with added grated mango
Directions
In a large mixing bowl toss in flour and crumbled vanilla biscuits/cookies. Add the butter cut into small pieces and work the pastry until crumbly. Add the sugar and the chopped walnuts and mix with your hands until they are evenly distributed.
Add the egg and the baking powder. Pour the orange juice on the baking powder. Mix to form a ball. Don’t overwork the dough.
Transfer dough to a floured surface and roll out to ½ cm /0.2 inch thick. Cut into circle shapes. I’ve cut them into 9 cm/3.5 inch diameter circles. If you can’t roll out the hole ball, refrigerate the extra dough until rolling it out.
Since I’ve baked these in the microwave oven, I used microwave safe baking paper strips to give them the shape of a tartlet (see photos). If you are not using the microwave oven you can use those special stainless steel pastry rings.
The last 4 small photos show how I made the outer paper ring, but the length of the strip is exaggerated so you can see better.
Microwave them (6 tartlets at a time) on the crisp plate on 500 W for 7 minutes, then on crisp for another 3 minutes.
Or preheat your (classic) oven at 180 C/ 360 F and bake them on a greased and floured baking tray for about 15 minutes.
You will get around 18 tartlets if you’ve cut the dough into 9 cm/3.5 inch diameter circle shapes.
Sprinkle ¼ Tbsp of chopped walnuts inside each tartlet, then spread a thin layer of orange jam. To finish your tartlets, garnish the pastry crust with the vanilla-mango cream.
Put aside for a few minutes allowing crust and cream to cool off a little bit.
Bon appétit!
thanks for the tutorial! And your tartlets are so beautiful!
31 March 2008 at 16:13How beautiful!
01 April 2008 at 05:41They look wonderful and ever so delicious! That mango and orange jam must taste great! Wow!
Cheers,
Rosa
01 April 2008 at 09:18Hi Lore!
01 April 2008 at 14:30Thanks for visiting my blog. I’m glad you did because look how beautiful your dessert is! Gorgeous!
Is Lore short for something? I’m Basque and in Basque Lore means flower. But I thought it could be short for Lorena too. Just curious.I need to keep reading more of your blog.
Thank you!
I love mango
01 April 2008 at 16:15Vanilla and mango are two of myfavorite flavors!
They look amazing!
01 April 2008 at 16:23Oh that is amazing!
01 April 2008 at 16:40WOW those tartlets look so very beautiful and thanks for popping by my blog. I am so pleased you did now I’m able to view all your creations you’ll be posting
Rosie x
01 April 2008 at 17:12Hi Lore, just to let you know I have now add your site to my blogroll to ensure I will be a most frequent visitor to your wonderful site
Thanks Rosie x
01 April 2008 at 18:14Gattina - Thanks! It wasn’t anything complicated but sometimes a few photos make a better explaining job than words :).
Tracy - Thank you
Rosa - Thanks and yes, it’s a great tropical flavoured combo.
Aran - Thank you for your sweet compliment! I’m trully amazed by your baking talent and I’m really glad I’ve found your blog! Lore is short for Loredana although j’aimerais bien être une fleure
Carmen - That makes two of us then
Chriesi - Thank you!
Rosie - Great to find your blog and as I said I’m looking forward to take a peek at more delicious treats :). Thanks for adding me to your blogroll and will do the same!
01 April 2008 at 19:58Recipe Girl - Thank you! Love them too but I’ve never tried them together until now. Sorry I missed out your comment the first time around but I honestly don’t know what happened: your comment appeared just now…or I’m just too tired.
01 April 2008 at 21:03Thank you for visiting my blog. I’m pleased that you did because now I have had the pleasure of looking at your beautiful tartlets.
02 April 2008 at 11:08Beautiful and creative, thanks for stopping by Mevrouw Cupcake and steering me your way!
02 April 2008 at 16:39Beautiful post! I wish I could pluck that tartlet off my monitor and eat it!!!
03 April 2008 at 01:21Margaret - Thank you for you kind words. I’m glad I found your blog and that Easter cake will stay with me for a long time ;).
Mevrouw cupcake - Thanks and I’ll be stopping by more often.
Sher - Thanks! I wish you could too
03 April 2008 at 11:30This looks beautiful. You can tell a lot of love went into the creation of these tartlets.
Thanks for visiting Equal Opportunity Kitchen!
03 April 2008 at 17:02What a clever creation! The tartlets look beautiful and delicious! Great job!
05 April 2008 at 19:10What inviting tartlets! And with Mango? Woohoo!
05 April 2008 at 22:50These sound lovely! I could use some of that mango and orange jam - delicious.
06 April 2008 at 15:15This looks amazing! I love the photos! I must make it for my roommate, she is a mango fiend!
07 April 2008 at 06:21Psychgrad and Susan - Thank you both
Chris - I’m glad you like them and must admit I’m one big mango addict
Cakelaw - Thanks! They do go well together so why not give them a try soon?
Ginny - Thanks! Watch closely ’cause she might be an undercover mango addict :)) just like me
09 April 2008 at 17:13