Easy Pâte Sucrée (Sweet Pastry Dough)
Pâte Sucrée is a sweetened pastry dough that is tender, less flakey and cookie like. Perfect for single crust pies, quiche and tarts.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter
- 1½ cups unbleached all-purpose flour plus more for rolling out the dough
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- pinch fine salt
- 1/4 cup ice cold water
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
Instructions
- Dice the butter into small cubes and freeze for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, whisk together the flour, sugar and salt. Drop in the butter and use a pastry blender to cut it into the flour/sugar.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the water (no ice), egg yolk and vinegar. Pour this into the bowl with the dry ingredients and use a spatula to combine. Then knead until the dough comes together, adding a little more water if needed.
- Shape and wrap tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 to 60 minutes.
- Dust a clean surface and your rolling pin with flour.
- Roll out the chilled pâte sucrée to fit a pie plate, tart pan or simply stamp with a biscuit cutter for mini-pies or tarts. Whatever your plans, follow the recipes instructions for the oven temperature and baking times.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 1694kcal | Carbohydrates: 180g | Protein: 23g | Fat: 99g | Saturated Fat: 60g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 26g | Trans Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 439mg | Sodium: 28mg | Potassium: 248mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 37g | Vitamin A: 3100IU | Calcium: 81mg | Iron: 9mg