Crostata Dough

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces unsalted butter
• 2 cups flour
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 cup ice water
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons sugar, mixed with the cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 cut butter into 1/2 inch pieces and put in freezer.
• 2 put dry ingredients in cuisinart and pulse to mix.
• 3 add butter, pulse until you have pea sized bits of butter.
• 4 with machine running add water and stop before you have a solid mass.
• 5 it should be crumbly.
• 6 dump out, divide in half and form each half into flat disks.
• 7 wrap in plastic and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
• 8 roll dough into a rough circle and place on sheet pan with parchment.
• 9 sprinkle pastry with 1/2 the cinnamon sugar.
• 10 place fruit filling in center 2/3 of pastry, sprinkle with remaining cinnamon sugar.
• 11 fold sides 1/3 of the way in toward center all the way around, leaving a 2/3 of the fruit exposed.
• 12 with your thumb press down on the outside edge of the pastry circle to seal.
• 13 baked at 400 until pastry is nicely browned.
• 14 cool.