Pate sucrée is your best helpmate in the pastry world.  It goes together so easily, it bakes up crisp and sweet, buttery, and vanilla scented, and it is a snap to either roll or press into a tart pan.  Once you pre-bake it, you can fill it to your heart’s content, with all your favorite sweet ingredients.  And there is never a crumb wasted, because the scraps turn into the best cookie you ever ate.

There are, of course, techniques to getting it just right, and I show them all, so that you will become an expert and, before you know it, you’ll be the pate sucrée expert in your world!