Ingredients
175 shortcrust pastry, chilled
30 g custar sugar
300 ml double cream
1 egg yolk
40 flaked almonds
1 tsp almond essence
1 tbsp icing sugar
large pinch of grated nutmeg
1 tsp butter
Method
Preheat the oven to 220° C Gas 7
1) line a 21 cm, buttered, flan tin, with the shortcrust pastry, form a double thickness edge
2) sprinkle and massage the caster sugar over the bottom of the pastry, pour the cream, mixed with the egg yolk and almond essence, then sprinkle with the almonds, dust with half the icing sugar and nutmeg
3) bake for 20 minutes, until golden
Serve warm dusted with icing sugar.