Pear frangipane tart

AUTHOR
Brooke Calhoun
DIFFICULTY
very easy
RATING
4 3
COOK TIME
60 mins
TOTAL TIME
60 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 8
  • 7-10 Tbsp For the short pastry
  • 210 g + some flour
  • 1/2 TEASPOON Salt
  • 1 TABLESPOON Sugar
  • 100 g cold butter
  • 60 g cold clarified butter
  • 7-10 Tbsp Cling film
  • 7-10 Tbsp For the frangipane filling
  • 65 g soft butter
  • 65 g Sugar
  • 1 Egg (Gr. M)
  • 100 g finely ground almond kernels (without skin)
  • 7-10 Tbsp grated zest of 1 organic lemon
  • 7-10 Tbsp or 1 organic orange
  • 3 TABLESPOONS Milk or cream
  • 2 TEASPOONS Flour
  • 1 Pear, in fine slices
  • 2-3 TABLESPOONS Apricot Jam

Directions

  1. 1

    For the shortcrust pastry, mix 210 g flour, salt and 1 tablespoon sugar well in a large bowl. Cut 100 g butter and 60 g clarified butter into small pieces, add to the flour mixture and crumble the cold fat into even smaller pieces with your fingertips. Add 75 ml ice-cold water, except for 1 tbsp. and mix with a fork until just enough to make a dough. Add the remaining water only if the dough is too dry

  2. 2

    Quickly form the dough on a little flour into a thick slice of dough. Wrap in cling film and put in the fridge for about 2 hours

  3. 3

    For the frangipane filling 65 g butter and 65 g sugar with whisks

  4. 4

    of the stirring device until creamy. Stir in the egg. Stir in almonds first, then citrus peel and finally milk or cream. Quickly stir in flour

  5. 5

    Preheat oven (circulating air: 195 °C). Roll out the dough on a lightly floured work surface until it is about 3 mm thin, dusting the rolling pin with flour. Place the rolled out dough in a rectangular tart mould with a lifting base (12 cm x 36 cm) or a round tart mould with a lifting base (approx. 23 cm Ø) and carefully press down the sides, making sure that there is an overhang of approx. 1 cm. Use your fingertips to form curled edges. Fill the tart with the frangipane and cover with the pear slices

  6. 6

    Bake in a hot oven for about 35 minutes. If the dough gets too dark, cover the tart with baking paper. Remove the tart. Spread pear with jam

  7. 7

    waiting time approx. 2 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
480 kcal
CARBS
36 g
FATS
33 g
PROTEINS
6 g