Sweet Pastry Dough (Pâte Sucrée: Part 2)

Okay so you want to roll this out to about 3 inches larger than your tart pan because your tart pan has straight sides. You can see here this is my tart pan, the bottom comes off and you can see how tall the sides are. So you want to make sure that your tart dough is going to be able to accommodate that. And then you want to make sure that the thickness is about between 1/8th and a ¼ of an inch. Let's see if we can delicately roll this up. Yeah it might work. Okay so we got it in there. So I'm just taking some of this extra off of the sides, and I'm building up the crust a little bit. Because I noticed that when I rolled it out it wasn't very even, and that's a great way to even it out. When you see that, yeah, we didn't quite get it the right size. It takes practice, it takes a lot of practice, but it's fun practice.

Okay so we've cleaned up the edges, another way to do it is to just roll your pin straight over the top. Like here I can see that my edge is a little bit thicker because I added some extra. Okay so just take that off. And then you want to dock your dough, which means you just want to kind of poke holes in it so that it doesn't puff up too much. So you want to put a piece of parchment that fits the bottom of the dough and slightly comes up the sides into the pie crust or sorry into the tart dough as it is now and then fill it with pie weights. So you can use the ceramic pie weights which look like little ceramic marbles, you can use dried beans which are very inexpensive and work great. And that will keep weight on the dough so that it doesn't puff up and shrink. It'll hold its shape perfectly when it comes out of the oven and then it will be ready to fill.

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