Shortcrust pastry
Mix the flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add the butter and rub together using your hands to form an even, crumbly mixture. Add the egg, mix quickly to create a soft dough – do not knead. Divide the dough into 12 portions, transfer to the prepared tin, shape by hand into tart bases approx. 1 cm high, prick the bases firmly with a fork. Top with the nuts, cover and chill for approx. 30 mins.
To blind bake
Approx. 15 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 200°C. Remove, allow to cool slightly, remove the bases from the tin and leave to cool on a rack.
Vermicelles
Spoon the whipped cream into the bases. Combine the chestnut puree with the kirsch, pass through a vermicelles press and onto the tarts.