Pear and cranberry tart

AUTHOR
Kelli Murphy
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
3 1
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 12
  • 225 g Flour
  • 125 g Butter
  • 40 g Icing sugar
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 5 TABLESPOONS + 200 ml milk
  • 1/2 package Chocolate Flavoured Pudding Powder
  • 1 TABLESPOON Sugar
  • 60 Almond kernels without skin
  • 2 TABLESPOONS Honey
  • 5 ripe pears (about 250 g each)
  • 7-10 Tbsp Juice of 1 lemon
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Cranberries
  • 7-10 Tbsp Flour
  • 7-10 Tbsp Grease
  • baking paper
  • 7-10 Tbsp Dried peas

Directions

  1. 1

    Knead flour, butter in flakes, icing sugar, egg and salt to a smooth dough. Wrap the dough in foil and chill for about 1 hour. Roll out the short pastry on a lightly floured work surface until round (approx. 28 cm Ø). Grease a tart tin (approx. 24 cm Ø) and line it with the dough, press down the edge. Prick the dough several times with a fork

  2. 2

    Line the pastry base with baking paper, fill with dried peas and bake on the lower shelf in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 10 minutes. Remove dry peas and baking paper and bake for another 10-15 minutes until golden brown. Remove the tart from the oven and let it cool down on a cake rack

  3. 3

    Boil 200 ml of milk. Stir pudding powder, sugar and 5 tbsp. milk until smooth. Stir into the boiling milk, bring to the boil and simmer for about 1 minute. Remove from the stove and let it cool down

  4. 4

    Mix almonds with honey and place on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Roast in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ circulating air: 150 °C/ gas: see manufacturer) for approx. 15 minutes until golden brown. Take out, let cool and chop coarsely

  5. 5

    Peel the pears and cut them out with a ball cutter. Sprinkle pear balls with lemon juice. First spread the pudding cream in the tart, then cover with pear balls. Spread cranberries and almonds on the tart

  6. 6

    Waiting time approx. 30 minutes

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
340 kcal
CARBS
38 g
FATS
18 g
PROTEINS
5 g

Categories & Tags

Cakes & Pastriesvery easyCake