French Almond Tart

Ingredient:
125g ground almond
125g plain flour
250g castor sugar
5 eggs
1 tbsp milk powder (or milk)
125g butter (room temperature)
125g margarine

Method:
1. Lightly beat eggs

2. Mix ground almond, flour and milk powder together.

3. Cream fats and sugar until sugar has dissolved and mixture becomes light and fluffy using medium speed.

4. Add in beaten eggs in several portion. Do not add in too much eggs too quickly to prevent curdling. Curdling is the result of having more liquid than the fat-coated cells have a capacity to retain.

5. Before last batch of egg, put in some dry ingredient to prevent from curdling using speed 2. Or you can also alternate dry ingredients with eggs.

6. Spoon or pipe into tarts. Sprinkle almond flakes on top.

Note: you can boil one tbsp of apricot jam with one tbsp of water, and coat to baked tarts for shiny topping.