Sweet Short Pastry (reduced sugar)

 This recipe for sweet short pastry uses CSR Smart Sugar which is readily available in supermakets and enables you to halve the amount of sugar you would normally use. It is a blend of cane sugar and a small amount of stevia.

I reduced the sugar in this recipe from 170gms to 80gms just over 50%. The sweetness of the pastry is not compromised at all and the baked pastry was light and biscuity with a lovely tender bite,

Recipe

 80 gms Smart Sugar                                                                                                                                      265 gms salted butter                                                                                                                                          

 Lightly cream  

 1 egg

 Add to the butter sugar cream and mix until cleared

 400 gms flour                                                                                                                                                5 gms Baking Powder

 Sift together and mix in with 1 Tablespoon of chilled water to form a dough                                             Knead lightly to a smooth ball and rest in a cool place for 30 minutes before using.

  BG