My Gluten Free Cornflake Tart
Taking you right back to your school dinners, my cornflake tart has a flaky shortcrust pastry base coated lashings of sweet strawberry jam and piled high with golden syrup soaked cornflakes
Servings: 1 x rectangular baking dish approx 30 x 25 (but you can use whatever tin you have!)
Ingredients
- 400 g Shortcrust Pastry – there are tons of recipes for this online or you can use shop-bought
- 300 g Jam – I use Strawberry but whatever you fancy!
- 300 g Mesa Sunrise Cereal
- 175 g Golden Syrup
- 100 g Butter/Spread – I use Flora Dairy Free
Instructions
The Pastry Case
- Pre-heat your oven to 180Oc.
- Line the tin you’re going to bake your ‘MesaFlake tart’ in with baking paper
- Roll out the pastry to the thickness of a £1 coin and roughly the shape of your baking tin, just slightly bigger so that you can completely cover the base of the tin, with 1-2cm sides. Place into the tin.>Very rough is fine – this recipe is all about the fun and nostalgia. Just make sure there isn’t any holes for the jam to escape through later!
- Use a fork to make small holes over the pastry, like the picture>This it to help prevent the pastry from puffing up.
- Place another piece of baking paper over the top of the pastry (so the pastry is sandwiched between baking paper, like the picture) and fill the case with baking beads>If you haven’t got any baking beads, use uncooked rice instead. You’ll need enough to cover the whole of the case. You can’t eat the rice after its been baked but you can keep the rice in a jar to reuse next time you want to make a pastry case!
- Place into the oven for 15 mins, until the edges are browning.
- Remove the rice and the top baking paper its sitting on (careful, it will be hot!!). Place it back into the oven for 5 mins.
The Tart!
- Coat the base of the tart with loads of jam!
- Warm the golden syrup and butter together in a pan on a low heat>Do not let it boil!!!
- Add the Mesa Sunrise flakes to the pan and stir until they are thoroughly coated.
- Tip the cornflakes into your pastry case and place into the oven for 5 mins>This is to help the mixture set.
- Remove from the oven, leave to cool completely so it firms up (takes at least 15mins) and then serve!