Recipe
How to Make Treacle Tart that Harry Potter Would Approve Of
2016 was a fantastic year for Harry Potter fans. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter had its grand opening at the Universal Hollywood location, curtains went up for The Cursed Child play in London and Newt Scamander made his worldwide movie debut in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It's hard to believe I thought the final movie in 2011 would be the end of the Harry Potter era. But JK Rowling has showed us that the magic isn't over yet.
So, let's celebrate the resurgence of the Wizarding World with Harry Potter's favorite dessert: treacle tart. The traditional British dessert is made of golden syrup, bread crumbs and lemon—a rather odd combination but delicious. Thanks to my Harry Potter cookbook, I was able to figure out how to make it the muggle way.
#SpoonTip: Note that prep time says almost three hours, but that includes two hours of chill time for the dough. Also, the recipe calls for 2 1/4 cups of bread crumbs, but the treacle tart ended up being a bit too crumb-y, so I would suggest using less or adding more syrup.
Treacle Tart
- Prep Time: 2 hrs 45 mins
- Cook Time: 35 mins
- Total Time: 3 hrs 20 mins
- Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 sticks cold butter
- 2 cold large egg yolks
- 1/3 cup cold heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup golden syrup or light molasses or corn syrup
- 2 1/4 cups bread crumbs
- Grated zest and juice 1 lemon
- 1 egg for egg wash
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
#SpoonTip: Don't have a tart pan? It's not the end of the world if you use a rounded pie plate, like me.