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This recipe makes 12 mini Treacle Tarts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gather your kitchen supplies:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 hole standard non stick muffin tin<\/li>\n<li>Saucepan<\/li>\n<li>Lemon grater\/zester<\/li>\n<li>Lemon juicer<\/li>\n<li>Wooden spoon<\/li>\n<li>Measuring cups<\/li>\n<li>Measuring spoons<\/li>\n<li>8cm round cookie cutter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Gather your ingredients:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1-2 sheets of ready made sweet shortcrust pastry<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd&nbsp;cup of golden syrup<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd&nbsp;cup of fresh, white breadcrumbs<\/li>\n<li>1 Tablespoon of treacle<\/li>\n<li>1 Tablespoon of lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd&nbsp;teaspoon of lemon zest<\/li>\n<li>\u00bd&nbsp;teaspoon of ground ginger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Method:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Preheat the oven to 180\u00b0C<\/li>\n<li>Spray the muffin tins with oil to prevent the tarts sticking to the pan<\/li>\n<li>Using a circular cookie cutter (approximately 8cm in diameter) cut out 12 circles of dough and line the muffin tins with them<\/li>\n<li>To make the filling, put the golden syrup and treacle in the saucepan, stir, and heat on the stovetop, stirring, until the syrup is runny. Take the saucepan off the heat<\/li>\n<li>Add the breadcrumbs, lemon juice, lemon zest, and ground ginger to the saucepan and stir.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>Carefully pour the filling into the pastry lined muffin tins.&nbsp; You only need a small amount in each one &#8211; just fill the pastry cup to around half full<\/li>\n<li>Bake in the oven for around 15-18 minutes, until pastry is golden<\/li>\n<li>Cool in the tins for around 5 minutes, then carefully lift out onto a cooling rack<\/li>\n<li>Serve warm with whipped cream or ice cream<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Why not try some variations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Double the ingredients and make one big treacle tart in a 27cm pie dish, and create a pastry lattice top.&nbsp; You&#8217;ll need to cook this for a bit longer, probably around 25 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Add \u00bd Tablespoon of chopped, crystallised ginger for an extra bit of zing!<\/li>\n<li>Dust with icing sugar before serving.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Treacle Tarts&nbsp; were a very popular dessert for English children from the late 1890s right up through to the 1960s because they were filling and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cmas.nz\/site\/cubs\/treacle-tarts\/\" title=\"Treacle Tarts\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cubs","category-resources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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