Tartlets with mascarpone cheese and hazelnut cream

Mascarpone tartlets and hazelnut cream are delicious and fresh tarts, perfect as a dessert or to enrich a sweet buffet.

	for the shortcrust pastry
	250 g all purpose flour
	1 egg + 1 yolk
	100 g powdered sugar
	125 g butter, cold
	the tip of a teaspoon of baking powder
	a little of vanilla extract
	for the filling
	250 g mascarpone cheese
	200 g hazelnut and cocoa spread
	hazelnuts to decorate

1.	First prepare the pastry. Sift the flour into a bowl and add the cold butter cut into cubes. With your fingertips, mix the flour well with the butter until you obtain a sandy mixture. Make a well and add the egg, the yolk, the powdered sugar, the vanilla extract and the baking powder.
2.	Knead quickly starting from the center, gradually incorporating the flour until you have a smooth and elastic dough. Wrap it in cling film and let it rest in the fridge for at least an hour.
3.	Meanwhile prepare the filling simply by mounting mascarpone and hazelnut cream with electric whisk, until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Keep in the fridge until ready to use.
4.	Now let's prepare the pastry baskets. Spread the dough on the lightly floured work surface to a thickness of about 3mm. With a flower-shaped cookie cutter cut out many cookies and lay each one on top of a mini-paper cup, placed on the baking tray with the bottom upwards.
5.	Bake in a hot oven at 180 ° C for about ten minutes or until the shells are golden brown. Once cooked gently remove the paper cup from the dough and let it cool completely on a wire rack.
6.	Transfer the filling into a sac-à-poche and stuff the pastry shells. Decorate to taste with whole hazelnuts. Store in the fridge and eat within a couple of days.