Sharon Galloway’s Coconut Tarts
A recipe for baked coconut tarts…..
Here’s a recipe kindly donated after much pleading for a good old coconut tart. Sharon bakes lots of these and other treats for family and friends and as I am too far away to scoff one I’ve had to settle for second best, the recipe. I think it’s great that Sharon makes time to bake at home, it’s all too easy to go to the local shop and buy something full of e numbers and we should follow her example or do as I do and hire a pastry chef!
So here’s Sharon’s recipe in her own words, give it a go……
Recipe for sharon Galloway’s Coconut Tarts
Makes 12 Tarts
4oz Short Pastry
Jam
2oz Margarine
2oz Caster Sugar
1 Egg
2oz Dessicated Coconut
Cream the margarine and sugar, add the egg followed by the coconut. Spoon the jam into the pastry cases using a three inch cutter, no more than a fingernail’s worth because it spills out and ruins them. Then divide the mixture between the twelve cases, it’s a little teaspoons worth in each.
Place in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for twenty minutes until golden.
Keep ten for yourself and share two with family and friends 
Thanks to Sharon for sharing her recipe for the best coconut tart recipe in the world, it beats my usual rubbish using bottles of red wine, truffles and all of that nonsense.
Recipe and text copyright Sharon Galloway
Reading this leaves me disappointed !
Why am I not on the list of Sharon’s family and friends and thereby qualifying for samples
It looks like a great recipe, clearly not one of yours Miles as it does not contain half a kilo of butter and a wheelbarrow of sugar
I think this is great it looks so ‘do-able’ well played Sharon !
All the best
Rod
PS. Sharon, I would really need some free samples to truly evaluate the recipe
February 27, 2009 @ 8:46 pm
Rod,
Get in line you leech, I’m starving over here, so I want first shout at postal deliveries
Fair comment about the ingredients, we should get Sharon to run our banks
Miles
February 27, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
Sharon,
It is a travesty that I’m currently on a diet of sorts because these coconut tarts are right up my street. I just adore coconut in all its forms but wrapped in pastry it’s doubly delightful.
Let’s not waste any of these scrumptious morsels on the Collins boys…. we ladies will be in need of tea and coconut tarts when Melissa visits. Besides, Miles and Rod both work very hard at achieving their male model physiques…. would be a shame to spoil all their efforts
Cid
February 27, 2009 @ 11:30 pm
Sharon/Miles,
Sounds great!! Not a million miles away from a Manchester Tart and as a Mancunian I can only endorse this with due vigour.
As a hopeless baker, can you tell me why marg and not butter?
GDave
February 27, 2009 @ 11:32 pm
I truly will have to send Miles some to try so you can all taste via the great words he writes.. me I am not so good at it.
Rod thank you and Cid, your right more for us less for the boys.
Greedydave, the reason simply for marge not butter is cost. I can make more for my money with marge. I am sure though that butter would taste extra special though.
February 27, 2009 @ 11:52 pm
Your recipe sounds wonderful, Sharon. I’d have to do some substituting for the regular flour, but that’s doable. Have any of you used organic coconut butter (Cid, you’d love it)? Or coconut flour (one of my favorites).
Yes, I’m with Cid, I adore anything made from coconut. No reason to share with the boys.
:-)
Melissa
February 28, 2009 @ 2:17 am
Sharon,
Typical! The minute anything sweet and baked gets mentioned the women get together and cast the boys out to sea
I want a coconut tart and I want one now!
Miles
February 28, 2009 @ 7:26 am
Sharon,
Thank you for sharing this recipe with us. I have already printed it off for future baking days at the Nean household. I love to bake but many of my recipes have a lot of ingredients. This looks easy and quick to do from the stock cupboard, especially since I do batches of pastry. Great one
Elsie
February 28, 2009 @ 9:05 am
Sharon,
‘ send Miles some to try so you can all taste via the great words he writes’ …. we do enough of that already, I’ve gained five pounds just listening to him
Cid
February 28, 2009 @ 3:32 pm
Melissa,
I’ve not seen any coconut flour in the shops over here but I love the sound of it. As for coconut butter, I be researching that now.
I did see some Teff flour last night in my favourite supermarket ….. I’ve been meaning to ask what the texture is like in cake baking? The Dutch make a ginger rye cake which is incredibly light …. I’ve loved it ever since trying some in Holland many years ago. It’s on the same shelf as the Teff so I’ve presumed there’s no gluten in it, also very inexpensive to buy which is an added bonus.
Cid
February 28, 2009 @ 3:41 pm
Cid, et all — coconut four is wonderful, but it soaks up the liquid in whatever you’re baking so you have to adjust for that. I’m actually going to do a post on teff flour, I just can’t seem to keep up with Miles.
:-)
It’s better not to use all teff in a recipe, I like to make a blend using several flours (and a starch). The ginger rye cake sounds wonderful (I love ginger), but rye is a gluten-containing grain so it’s off the menu for me. Wheat (and derivatives like spelt and kamut), rye, and barley all contain gluten, hence my interest in “alternative” flours.
Miles, I went to a WordPress blogger workshop all day today. It was fascinating — one guy did a whole presentation on the “communities” we create in the blogging world. You would have loved it.
Here’s to community!
Melissa
March 1, 2009 @ 2:26 am
Melissa,
Thank you for that, I’ve learnt a great deal from you. I feel guilty!!
Wish I had been at that workshop with you, sounds fascinating. People talk of the dangers of spending too much time on the internet and I can see their point but when you become part of a ‘community’ which is as diverse as those which you and I seem to now have then I do believe it is far more rewarding than many would give credit for.
Our sense of community has changed over the years and ironically with the onset of blogs and the likes of Facebook and Myspace we have gone from friends across the street to friends across the oceans. It’s a question of balance, don’t you agree?
Could be a post this one!!
Miles
March 1, 2009 @ 9:08 am
Miles,
Yes, creating community in the blogging world could not only be a post topic, but a PhD thesis (and I’m sure has). It’s a fascinating phenomenon as you become interested in people for reasons other than how they look, career status, etc.
And you’re right, Miles — it always seems to be a question of balance, doesn’t it?
:-)
Melissa
March 1, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
Melissa,
Balance is everything, it should be the buzz word in our credit crunch society!!
But yes, you are right it is interesting-in the right hands.
Miles
March 1, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
My Grandad used to make these and they were gorge! I’ll give em a bash next week so i will let u know how they turned.
January 5, 2012 @ 9:18 pm
Debbie,
Welcome to the site and thank you for your comment, look forward to hearing how you get on.
Good luck!!
Miles
January 7, 2012 @ 8:08 pm