How to make “Pear and Almond Tart

 

Are you are looking for a seasonal dessert in fall? If yes, it would be the one for you. I just made the lovely “Pear and Almond Tart” last weekend by following the recipe from Just One Cook Book.

It only takes 3 steps, making a sweet tart crust, making almond cream filling, and assembling pears with filling. The recipe is for a 9 to 10-inch tart. Just give it a trial. It would be easier than you thought.

 Step 1, making a sweet tart crust from scratch:

The ingredients of a sweet tart crust are 170g of all-purpose flour, 10g of almond meal, 60g of icing sugar, 1/4 tsp of sea salt, 113g of unsalted butter, a large egg and 1/2 tsp vanilla extract.

Flour, almond meal and icing sugar need to be mixed well before you rob in cold butter. Next, add in the egg and vanilla extract. Slightly work on the dough into a ball, flatten the ball, chill it in fridge for 30 minutes at lease.

Once the dough chilled, shape it by a rolling pin and put into a non-stick tart tin, then put it back to fridge for another 30 minutes.

Now, to bake the tart crust. Put a baking paper on it, pour in baking stones or dry beans, set it under blind-baking at 180⁰C. Once it is baked for 20 minutes, take the crust out of oven, move away the baking sheet and stones, then bake it for more 5 minutes.

Well, here might be a benefit for you. The sweet crust can be made a few days ahead of your baking day, if you are too busy to do it in one day.

 Step 2, making almond cream filling:

While waiting the baked crust chilled, let’s make the creamy filling. The filling is made of 113g unsalted butter, 120g icing sugar, 120g almond meal, 15g all-purpose flour, ¼ tsp sea salt, 2 large eggs, 1.5 tsp pure vanilla extract. The butter and egg need to be set in room temperature before you mix the filling.

The last step, assembling and baking:

Preheat your oven at 180⁰C. Slice 3 pears, and mix in lemon juice to keep the pears from getting brown. At this point, apply the almond cream filling in the baked crust, then arrange the sliced pears.

By the way, if the pears aren’t ripe enough, you may follow the link for boiling pears before you assemble the tart.

Great, time to bake! Get the tart baked for 30 to 40 minutes at 180⁰C, then use a bamboo stick to check if it’s done properly.