By Benoit Castel

Recipe Puff pastry Tart

To make this dish

Ingredient list

  • Puff pastry dough
    219 g Tradition flour
    208 g bread flour
    8 g fine salt
    48 g caster sugar
    3 g milk powder
    13 g Fresh yeast cube
    22 g egg
    180 g water
    220 g Unsalted 1kg butter Sheet 84% fat
  • Mascarpone Cream
    250 g mascarpone
    250 g cream cheese
    1/2 Bunch chives
  • Topping
    50 cherry tomatoes
    40 Mozzarella balls
    1 Bunch chives
    SQ ground black pepper
    SQ fleur de sel

The recipe, step by step

  1. 01

    Puff pastry dough

    Place all the dry ingredients in the bowl of the mixer, then add the yeast, eggs and water. Knead for 8 minutes on speed 1 and then for 3 minutes on speed 2. Shape the dough into a ball, wrap in plastic film and let rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour. Enclose the butter sheet in the dough and give it two double turns. Roll the dough out to a thickness of 3,5 mm and cut out using a Ø10 cm fluted cutter. Let the dough rise for 1½ hours at 30°C, then bake at 180°C for 15 minutes.

  2. 02

    Mascarpone Cream

    Combine the mascarpone with the cream cheese and beat lightly with the whisk attachment. Add the chives. Pipe the chive cream cheese onto the baked pastry.

  3. 03

    Topping

    Cut a few cherry tomatoes and arrange on top of the tart. Arrange the mozzarella balls in the centre. Sprinkle lightly with pepper and fleur de sel. Sprinkle with fresh chives and a basil leaf. Drizzle with olive oil.


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