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Pear tart with almond cream

This is a very quick and easy tart to make, as everything (or almost) can be done in advance. A piece of sweetcrust pastry, some almond cream and pears? You have "everything you need".

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Last modified on: March 17^th 2011

For 1 tart, you will need:

1 4 Pears
2 250 g Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée)
3 200 g Almond cream or frangipane
4 ½ lemon
5 a little apricot glaze (optional)
Total weight: 1,235 grams

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Time required

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
44 min.	30 min.	1 hour 14 min.

Keeping:

1 or 2 days in the fridge, folded in a plastic film

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #1

Roll out the pastry into as thin and even a circle as possible, prick it with a fork (to prevent it inflating too much when cooking), then line the tart mould or tin.

Push well into the bottom and sides, then with a knife trim off any excess pastry around the edge.

Put to wait in the refrigerator.

Stage 2 - 15 min.

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #2

Peel 4 Pears, cut into four lengthways and discard the core.

Cut each quarter in 2 again, then sprinkle them all with the juice of ½ lemon to prevent browning.

Preheat the oven to 210°C or 410°F.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #3

Fill the pastry case in the tart mould/circle with 200 g Almond cream or frangipane. You can add more if (like me) you love it, or less.

Anyway, there should be at least ½ cm of it over the whole base.

Stage 4 - 7 min.

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #4

Fill the mould with the pears.

You can arrange them in a rosette, like in the photographs, by laying all the pears in the same direction.

Remember to press each piece down gently, to embed them a little in the almond cream.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #5

Finish by filling the centre of the mould with a segment cut into small pieces.

Stage 6 - 30 min.

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #6

Put in the oven for approximately 30 minutes.

Stage 7

Pear tart with almond cream : Photo of step #7

If you like, "glaze" (with a brush), the top of the cooled tart with a little apricot glaze.

Remarks

You can vary this recipe in all sorts of ways: changing fruit (apples, apricots...), changing pastry, and even the cream for stewed apples for an apple tart for example, but almond cream and pears really are a very harmonious mixture.

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 tart : 10.76 €

Note : These prices are only approximate

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Source

Home made

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Sweetcrust pastry (pâte sablée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Cherry and pistachio tarts, Chocolate tart, Bounty-style tart for Alison, Exotic fruit tart, How to roll out pastry for a tart, ... All
	Almond cream or frangipane: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Exotic fruit tart, Brioche slices with almond cream, Apricot and almond cream tart, Rhubarb tart, Plum tart, ... All
	Pears: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Pear, grapefruit and pistachio tart, French Family Cake, Pear charlotte, Pears in red wine with blackcurrant , Apple and pear tart, ... All
	Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Santiago Cake, Quince paste, Pear compote , Panettone, Lemon Mayonnaise, ... All

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