Now Everybody Can Bake - Cheese Tarts

My friend Ailee came over yesterday to teach me how to bake a delicious cheese tarts. The process wasn't as difficult as I thought.

This is what you need:
125g of butter
50g of granulated sugar
1 egg
250g plain flour
1/2 tsp of vanilla essence (optional)

Cream butter (soften) and sugar together at medium speed until fluffy. Add the egg and continue at medium speed until they are well mixed.

Now pour the flour gradually into the mixture and mix them with spatula or wooden spoon. When the mixture has become coarse dough, use hands instead to rub the dough until they are well mix and smooth.

Press a small piece of dough into the mould one by one. This will make about 60-70 pieces of small tart shells (bite size). Making tart shells need some skill but you will become more skillful after you have done a few tarts.


Bake the tart shells in the oven at 180 degree Celsius for about 15 minutes. The tart shells just like biscuits so you can actually prepare more and keep it for future use. What you have to do is just prepare the cream cheese and bake them one more time.

This is the freshly baked tart shells.



Now we are going to prepare the cream cheese.
250g of cream cheese
20 g of butter
50 g of granulated sugar (or lesser)
1 egg

It is best to first chop or break the cream cheese into smaller pieces (as it is quite hard) before cream it with butter and sugar. When the mixture turn fluffy, gradually add in the egg. Keep beating until they are well mixed and harden.

Fill the tart shell with cream cheese. Add a bit of blue berry jam, make a design or a pattern with a tooth pick. Bake them at 150 dc for 10 minutes (not to hot as the tart shells have already baked earlier).


As I love blue berry jam so I top it up.