Sweet Potato Tarts for Christmas Eve

Sweet Potato Tarts for Christmas Eve

     Ingredients: (makes 8 medium size tarts & 16 mini tarts)
     Sweet Tart
     250g Plain flour or use 300g plain flour without the ground almond
     50g Ground almond
     165 Butter
     75g Icing sugar
     1/4 tsp Salt
     3 1/2 tbsp Water

• Mix pastry ingredients till crumbly, add ice water into it and knead to become a dough. (Please refer to my Blueberry Pie for more details)
• Shape it into ball and wrap it with aluminium foil. Put dough in freezer for about 15 minutes.
• Roll the pastry dough flat into about 3mm thickness between two plastic sheets. Use a round cutter to cut dough and place it into tart mould.
• Press the dough evenly in mould and trim excess dough with a sharp knife.
• Prick some holes with a fork to release air from the pastry and place the tart moulds in the freezer for another 10 mins or for a day or two.
• Take out tart moulds from freezer, line with aluminium foil and blind bake medium size tarts for 30 minutes and mini size tarts for 20 minutes at preheated oven 180C. Remove aluminium foil immediately from tart moulds after baked and leave tart pastry to cool.

     Sweet Potato Paste
     700g Sweet potato
     70g Sugar
     40g Butter
     1 Egg yolk
     160g Whipping cream or fresh milk

• Wash and scrub sweet potato and steam at high heat till soft.
• Remove skin and put sweet potato in a food processor together with sugar, butter, egg yolk and whipping cream and blend till fine paste, set aside. (measure 200g for making sweet potato cream) 

    Sweet Potato Cream
    200g Sweet potato paste
    100g Whipping cream
    1 tbsp Sugar

• Making Sweet Potato Cream
• Whip cream with sugar on medium speed until stiff peaks form,
• Add sweet potato paste into the whipping cream and mix to combine to sweet potato cream.
• Add sweet potato cream into a piping cream and pipe into tart shells.
• Chill for 30-60 mins to let cream set.

• Spoon the remaining sweet potato paste into a piping bag and pipe on top of sweet potato cream.
• Chill  sweet potato tarts and dust some icing sugar or snow powder before serve.
• **Sweet potato tarts can be also served immediately.