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Shortcrust pastry recipes

Looking for shortcrust pastry ideas? You’ve come to the right place. Our love of pastry knows no bounds, and here we’ve rounded up a delicious selection of our best pie, tart and quiche recipes using both homemade and ready-made shortcrust pastry. Plus, of course, there’s a recipe to make your own shortcrust pastry from scratch, because there’s nothing quite like making homemade pastry to relax the mind, if you ask us. Mastering shortcrust ensures a crumbly texture and satisfying bite, with that all-important buttery flavour.

If it’s desserts you’re after, our most popular shortcrust pastry ideas include the ultimate Bakewell tart, a gorgeously pink rhubarb and custard tart, and Raymond Blanc’s classic lemon tart zinging with citrus flavour. But there’s so much more to explore too.

Savoury fans WILL be in heaven with the perfect quiche lorraine, a generously filled chicken pie and our unabashedly indulgent dauphinois pie topped with golden shortcrust pastry. Butter, it’s just good!

When it comes to finishing your shortcrust pastry bakes, discover our top tips for egg washing for perfectly burnished pastry lids. Finishing touches make all the difference, after all.

Find plenty of filo pastry recipes and puff pastry recipes in our collections, too.

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Quiche

Trout, spring onion and wild garlic quiche

Wild garlic gives this creamy trout quiche a delicate fragrance that lifts oily fish beautifully. A perfect spring lunch for sharing.

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Make-ahead desserts

Gooseberry and white chocolate frangipane tart

Gooseberry tart is great as is, but when sweet white chocolate is added in to the mix, it's a bonafide winner. Frangipane provides the perfect medium for the plump, honey-glazed gooseberry.

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30-minute meals

Summer vegetable and feta galette

This pretty, versatile galette celebrates all of late spring and early summer’s culinary heroes – and it’s ready in 30 minutes.

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Baking recipes

Easy flaky pastry

The only flaky pastry recipe you’ll ever need. Its rich, buttery texture that flakes when cut is perfect for pies, sheet tarts and turnovers.

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Mince pies

Mince pies shortcrust pastry

One bite of a home-made shortcrust pastry mince pie and you'll never want to buy them again! This recipe makes 12 mince pies

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Vegetarian comfort food

Dauphinois potato and leek pie

It’s a double carb dream: creamy potatoes meet crisp cheese pastry. Serve this knockout dauphinois potato and leek pie with greens or salad.

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Sweet tarts

The ultimate bakewell tart

A proper bakewell tart recipe with crisp sweet shortcrust pastry, a layer of strawberry jam, a generous frangipane filling and flaked almonds.

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Shortcrust pastry

Swiss chard, bacon and Gruyère tart

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Shortcrust pastry

Beef pie

This classic beef pie recipe has been adapted from a recipe first published in 1747! The recipe has been modernised without losing its traditional flair.