Cheese Tartlets
- Total Time
- 15 minutes, plus 30 minutes' refrigeration
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Ingredients
- ½cup unsalted butter, softened
- 4ounces fontina cheese
- 1cup flour
- Pinch cayenne
- ½cup finely grated fontina cheese
- 2tablespoons butter, scant
- Pinch cayenne
- 1tablespoon cream
- ½egg yolk
- 10large radishes and 10 sprigs of watercress for garnish
Pastry
Filling
Preparation
Pastry
- Step 1
Cream butter and cheese until well blended. Combine remaining ingredients and add gradually until well mixed. Form dough into ball, refrigerate wrapped in plastic about 30 minutes.
- Step 2
Using diluted tart pans that are three-quarter inch across the bottom and two inches across the top, fill each pan, pressing approximately one teaspoon of dough into each.
- Step 3
Place pans on cookie sheet and bake at 350 degrees for 7 to 10 minutes or until golden. Remove from cookie sheets, invert on wire rack and cool slightly. Tap lightly on bottom to release tarts.
Filling
- Step 4
Place all of the ingredients except garnishes in food processor with steel blade and process until smooth.
- Step 5
To make ahead, store mixture in refrigerator. It will become hard, but can be restored to original texture by processing.
- Step 6
To Serve: For 10 servings, fill 10 tarts. Slice radishes and then julienne finely. Serve each tart with one julienned radish and a sprig of watercress.
- These are very fragile, so the recipe allows for more tarts than are needed. If there is remaining dough, freeze for other uses. The tarts can be filled a day ahead and refrigerated. Allow to sit at room temperature 15 minutes before serving.
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