Hors d'oeuvres tartlet shells

40 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
-Martha Stewart Hors d'
2 cups Flour
1 pinch Salt
¾ cup Cold, unsalted butter
⅓ cup Ice water

Directions

Combine flour and salt in food processor. Cut butter into small pieces and add to flour. Process quickly until resembles coarse meal.

Add water by droplets, just mixing until dough holds together when pressed with fingers---NOT wet or stickey. Remove dough and press into a flat round, wrap in plastic and chill for 30 minutes. To form tartlets, you'll need twice as many pans as the quantity of shells you want to make. Lightly butter or pam the insides of half the pans.

Roll out half the pastry on floured board into a round about ⅛" thick. Continually move pastry around board, burning over once or twice to prevent sticking. Put tartlet pans on pastry and, with a sharp knife, cut pastry into pieces slightly larger than pans. Place pastry in prepared pans, pressing firmly, and cut off the excess pastry with thumb. Press an unbuttered pan into each pastry-lined pan to act as a weight during baking. Place shells on baking sheet and chill 30 minutes. Preheat oven to 375. To bake, set another baking sheet on top of tartlets. Bake for 10 minutes, until edges begin to have color. Remove top baking sheet and liner pans and continue to bake until shells are lightly golden---5-7 more minutes. Remove shells from pans and cool on racks. Shells can be cooled fully then cushioned with wax paper, stacked and stored in an airtight container up to three days. Also they can be frozen. Place unthawed shells in a 350 degree oven---don't allow to brown further. Formatted by Theresa Grant, HWWK11B, From Martha Stewart Hors d'oeuvres.

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