Pudding

Best Ever Treacle Tart

Wow your loved ones with this levelled-up version of a classic from acclaimed chef Shaun Rankin

30 minutes plus 30 minutes resting time prep, 1 hour cook

Serves Serves 6-8

Ingredients

260g plain flour

100g icing sugar

30g ground almonds

125g unsalted butter, diced

3 eggs

Plain flour for dusting

1 tsp milk

60g unsalted butter

1 egg

1 egg yolk

3 tbsp double cream

6g salt

450g golden syrup

120g brown breadcrumbs

250g raspberries

Half a lemon, juiced

1 tsp icing sugar

Black pepper

225g clotted cream

Method

Start by making the pastry. Put the flour, sugar, almonds and butter in a large bowl. Using your fingertips, mix together into a crumb consistency. Add 2 of the eggs and mix well.

Cover and rest in the fridge for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180ºC/Gas mark 4.

Lightly dust a work surface with flour. Roll out the pastry to about 2mm thick.

Line the tart ring with the pastry, letting it hang over the sides. Cover with oven-proof cling film and fill the tart base with dry rice or baking beans.

Bake blind for about 20 minutes or until the case is cooked through and lightly golden. Remove from oven and lift off the rice or baking beans and the cling film.

Mix the egg and milk in a small bowl. Using a pastry brush, egg wash the tart well and return to the oven for a further 3 minutes.

Remove from the oven and set aside. Reduce the oven temperature to 160ºC/Gas mark 3.

For the filling, melt the butter in a saucepan until it starts to foam and turn brown, then take off the heat. Pour the butter through a sieve to remove the sediment.

Mix the egg, egg yolk, cream and salt in a bowl.

In a saucepan heat the golden syrup gently for a few minutes until hot.

Add the brown butter and mix well until it goes cloudy. Then add the cream mixture and the breadcrumbs. Mix well then pour the mixture into the cooked tart base.

Cook in the oven for 25 minutes then reduce the temperature to 140ºC/Gas mark 1 and cook for a further 20 minutes.

Remove from the oven and leave to cool, so the top is chewy and the middle is be soft and moist with the pastry nice and crunchy.

When you are ready to serve your treacle tart, put the raspberries into a bowl and add the lemon juice and icing sugar. Mix well and finish with pepper to taste.

Cut the tart into portions, scatter with the dressed raspberries and serve with a scoop of the clotted cream.