I lowered the heat and let the liquid simmer for an hour before removing it from the stove and storing it in a container. After boiling water and brown sugar, I added two tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice. I substituted brown sugar for regular white sugar because the recipe recommended the former for a deeper flavor. With my pastry dough in the refrigerator, I began to make my second homemade ingredient: the special golden syrup. After I added a splash of ice-cold water and kneaded my mixture, my shortcrust pastry was ready to be chilled overnight. To get a stick of butter into thin slices, I banged a rolling pin on it until it adopted the thickness I wanted. After placing a few online orders, I was good to go.įirst, because I decided against buying store-made shortcrust pastry, I made my own by combining thinly-pressed butter slices with my dry ingredient mix, composed of flour, confectioner’s sugar and salt. The only ingredients I needed to purchase were bread, heavy cream and lemons. Due to my own baking background, I already owned many of the ingredients or could make substitutions to the recipe. I started by gathering all the ingredients in the recipe. ![]() I chose to make my own golden syrup to avoid any extra hassle buying the product and hoped that this homemade version would be as authentic as its legendary golden flavor. Multiple recipes stated that it would be best not to replace golden syrup with any other kind of syrup. After much head-scratching, I finally decided to use Cupcake Jemma’s treacle tart recipe, with my own modifications.Īnother difficulty I ran into was that golden syrup, a syrup particular to treacle tart, was rare and expensive. For example, “double cream” in Britain is “heavy cream” in America, and Britain uses grams, while the U.S. On top of it being my first time baking a tart, I never would have thought that baking terminology in Britain would be different to that in America. When searching for a recipe to use, I was shocked at the varying levels of difficulty each recipe brought to the table. With a snap of his fingers, Dobby transforms the ingredients into Harry’s favorite treacle tart. ![]() Other ingredients found in the filling include bread crumbs and lemon juice. The tart is made predominantly of shortcrust pastry and golden syrup, also known as light-treacle. As “Harry Potter” is my favorite series to this day, it was only right that I tried making his personal favorite.Ĭontrary to many of the other magical sweets in the series, treacle tart is a traditional English dessert. Harry Potter loves treacle tart so much that he smells it in Amortentia, a powerful love potion in the wizarding world - that is some next-level fondness for a seemingly simple dessert.
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