
Upside-Down Pineapple Tart
Try this delicious, quick and easy upside down pineapple tart recipe for a tasty dessert treat. Made with Jus-Rol sweet shortcrust pastry.
Quick Stats
Easy
10 Servings
75 minutes bake time
Upside-Down Pineapple Tart
Try this delicious, quick and easy upside down pineapple tart recipe for a tasty dessert treat. Made with Jus-Rol sweet shortcrust pastry.
Ingredients
- 1 x 500g block Jus-Rol Sweet Shortcrust Pastry
- 200g cherry jam
- 100g self-raising flour
- 50g desiccated coconut
- 150g soft butter
- 150g golden caster sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 5 pineapple rings
- 5 whole glacé cherries
- Icing sugar, to serve
- Ice cream, custard or single cream, to serve (optional)
Equipment required
- Rolling Pin
- 20cm round loose bottomed tart tin
- Foil or greaseproof paper
- Baking Beans
- Electric Mixer
Techniques Used
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How to Blind Bake Pastry
How to Blind Bake Pastry
Once a flan tin or ring has been lined you may wish to bake it unfilled (baking blind), to then fill later with a cold filling or one which requires a lower cooking temperature. It is always best, if time allows, to chill the unbaked flan in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes before baking blind.
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- Take a large piece of silicone baking or greaseproof paper and pleat it so that you can fit it into the flan tin easily.
- Press paper gently into flan case and allow excess to stand up around edges.
- Cover base with baking beans or similar. It is possible to buy ceramic baking beans which are re-usable, otherwise use uncooked rice, split peas or similar to weight down the base.
- Bake the flan according to recipe instructions, generally the flan is baked for 12-15 minutes then the paper and beans removed and the flan returned to oven to finish baking to a golden brown.
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How to Roll Shortcrust Pastry
How to Roll Shortcrust Pastry
- For best results when rolling out shortcrust pastry use a large, clean dry area of the work surface and lightly dust it with plain flour.
- Place pastry dough on surface and lightly dust it and the rolling pin with flour.
- Roll pastry firmly, always rolling away from you, give the dough 2-3 rolls.
- Then turn the dough a quarter turn.
- Dust again if necessary and continue rolling out, frequently turning the pastry so it is not always rolled in the same direction as this causes shrinkage.
- When the pastry has increased in size, pick it up to turn/ line the tin by rolling it round the rolling pin.
- Lift the pin with the pastry around it carefully and turn it to lay out and continue rolling. Again this is done to prevent the pastry from stretching as you lift it which in turn would result in shrinkage in baking. Shortcrust pastry should be rolled out to approx. 3-5 mm. depth.
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan oven) Gas Mark 4. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured surface until big enough to line a 22cm round deep loose-bottomed tart tin. Line the pastry with foil or greaseproof paper, fill with baking beans and bake for 25 minutes. Remove the paper and beans and cook for 10 minutes more until golden, then spread the cherry jam over the base and set aside.
- Make the filling by putting the flour, coconut, butter, sugar and eggs into a big mixing bowl. Beat with an electric whisk until smooth.
- Spread the coconut filling over the jam base. Arrange the pineapple rings on top, with a whole cherry in the centre of each, then bake for 35-40 minutes until the sponge is risen and firm. Cool completely in the tin.
- Lift from the tin and dust with a little icing sugar before slicing. Serve with ice cream, custard or single cream, if you like.