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Almond Cream and Blueberry Shortbread Pie
Preparation
30 minutes
Cooking
20 minutes
Portions
4 servings
Shortbread cookie base topped with almond cream garnished with blueberries and baked in the oven. The whole thing sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Ingredients
Shortbread pie dough
- ¾ cup Butter
- 2 tbsp Sugar
- 3 tbsp Icing sugar
- 3 tbsp Almond powder
- 1 cup Wheat flour
- ½ Egg
Almond cream
- ½ cup Butter
- ¾ cup Sugar
- 3 Eggs
- ¾ cup Almond powder
- 2 tsp Amber rum
- 1½cups Frozen blueberries
- 1½tbsp Wheat flour
3/4 |
cup(s) |
Butter |
2 |
tbsp |
Sugar |
3 |
tbsp |
Icing sugar |
3 |
tbsp |
Almond powder |
1 |
cup(s) |
Wheat flour |
1/2 |
unit(s) |
Egg |
Preparation
Shortbread dough
- Make sure that the butter is room temperature and soft.
- Place it in your stand mixer bowl.
- Add the sugar and mix well.
- Add the egg and continue to mix.
- At the same time, pass the dry ingredients through a sieve. Make sure it is well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the stand mixer and mix until well combined.
- Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let rest in the fridge for at least 4 hours.
- Once rested, knead the dough with your hands until it is soft enough to work easily.
- Roll the dough out using the Starfrit Rolling pin.
- Transfer the dough circles on the underside of a muffin mold, making sure they are well centered.
- Transfer to the fridge until well cooled.
Almond cream
- In the bowl of the mixer, place the softened butter and sugar together and mix until it looks like mashed potatoes.
- Add the eggs one at a time making sure they are well incorporated before continuing.
- Sift the dry ingredients and add to the mixture after the eggs.
- Finish by adding the rum to the mixture.
- Afterwards, fill the pies halfway to the top with this almond mixture and top with the blueberries.
- Immediately place the pies in the oven for 20-25 minutes and wait for the pies to cool before removing them form the molds.
To serve
- Place the pie in a round plate and sprinkle generously with some powdered sugar. Enjoy!