...and from it, one of my my favorite recipes:
Sweet Tart Dough
Ingredients:
1cup + 2Tbsp unsalted butter at room temperature
1cup sugar
1/4tsp salt
2 Large eggs at room temperature
3 1/2cups all purpose flour
Tips:
Eggs can be brought to room temperature by placing in a bowl and letting luke warm water run over them for about 5 minutes.
Directions:
Combine butter, sugar and salt. Mix on medium until smooth. Mix 1 egg until blended, and then the other. Scrape sides of bowl with a rubber spatula. Add the flour all at once, and mix until just incorporated. The recipe calls for refrigerating the dough for 2 hours (or over night)but personally, I don't think it makes too much of a difference. Just be sure your work environment isn't to warm, it makes the dough soft and difficult to work with.
You can use this dough to make cookies, fruit tarts, or even as a pie crust! It's fantastic. I usually melt chocolate chips and drizzle it overthe top, or cut up some fruit such as strawberries, kiwi, or apricots and place on top.
(For a more clay like chocolate, like in the picture above, I add a tiny splash of milk to the already melted chocolate chips. A tiny splash! It doesn't take much)
