The easiest shortcrust pastry pie that melts in your mouth

Kitchen appliances and utensils: oven, detachable baking dish, mixer, knife, fork, refrigerator.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. We will prepare all the ingredients and the work surface. The taste and friability of shortcrust pastry largely depends on the quality and quantity of butter. Therefore, take 130 g of good butter 82.5% fat. It must be softened. We don’t use eggs in this recipe, which reduces its calorie content. Put butter and 60 g sugar in the mixer bowl. We interfere at medium speed until the mass brightens and becomes airy, for about 3 to 4 minutes. Do not rush with mixing butter with sugar, otherwise its granules will be felt in the finished dough. Also, do not interfere for a very long time, since oil can give off water.
   
2. Then sift 130 g of wheat flour, enriching it with oxygen, pour into the mixer bowl. Next, add 60 g of rice flour and a pinch of salt. Mix everything until a homogeneous mass is formed.
   
3. Next we work with our hands - we will form the dough into a ball. The dough is soft and elastic, not sticky to the hands.
   
   It should be noted that the addition of vanilla, cinnamon, and chopped nuts can give a diverse taste to the dough. By adding new spices every time you make a pie, you will enjoy a new taste.
4. We spread the dough in a detachable baking dish with a diameter of 16 cm and distribute it with the fingers on the bottom of the mold, we do not bumps. Visually divide the cake into 8 parts and outline it with a knife, without cutting it to the end. We prick it around the perimeter with a fork so that it does not swell during baking.
   
5. We put the form with the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. There is a second option for cooling the dough - after forming it into a ball, put it in a food bag or wrap it with cling film and send it to the refrigerator, and then distribute it in shape. From the resulting test, you can cook not only a pie, but also light, shortbread cookies. While the dough is cooling, preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
6. We send the cake to the oven to the middle level and bake for 30 - 35 minutes. The temperature and time of baking the cake will depend on your oven, so carefully monitor the process to reduce / increase the cooking time or increase / decrease the temperature, if necessary.
   
7. When the cake is baked and browned, remove from the oven and immediately sprinkle with sugar and let cool. The shortcrust pastry pie is ready, cut into pieces and serve.
   

Enjoy your meal!

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