Fast Desserts Recipes - Treacle Tart

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup (125ml) golden syrup

• 2 teaspoons lemon juice

• 1 teaspoon greeted lemon rind

• 15cm ready-made cooked short crust pastry flan

• 1.4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

• 1/3 cup (25g) fresh white breadcrumbs

• icing sugar, to dust

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Method:

1. Preheat the oven to moderately hot 190°C (375F°/Gas 5). Place the syrup, lemon juice and rind in a small saucepan and warm over medium heat for 2 minutes, or until slightly runny.

2. Place the pastry flan on a baking tray and pour half of the syrup into the flan. Sprinkle with half of the combined cinnamon and breadcrumbs and pour on the remaining syrup. Sprinkle with the remaining crumb mixture.

3. Bake for 15 minutes or until the mixture is just set. Dust with icing sugar and serve.

Note: this traditional English dessert used to be made with treacle but is now made with golden syrup to suit modern tastes.

Hint: this dessert is quite thin, but as it is very rich, each person will only need a small piece.