Recipe

Pear Almond Tart Recipe

Add Step-by-Step Photos	Juels / All my dishes 1 year, 1 month ago A very unusual pear tart. I can never get my kids to eat fruit pies, but they love this one. Prep:10m Cook:50m Servings:8	Juels
	pear and almond tart

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Ingredients

For the crust: 1 cup all-purpose flour

3/4 cup whole wheat flour

1/2 cup shortening

1 tbsp sugar

3 tbsp cold water

For the filling: 1/3 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup ground almonds

1 tsp almond extract

2/3 cup sugar

4 tbsp butter, softened

2 eggs, beaten

3 tbsp raspberry OR strawberry jam

14 oz can pear halves in natural juice, or about 5 fresh pears, halved cored and boiled

3 tbsp peach or apricot preserves

sliced almonds for decoration

Directions

For the crust, stir the flours together, add 1 tbsp. sugar, mix well. Work in the shortening with a special tool, or a fork, until the mixture resembles fine bread crumbs. Add water and stir till moistened.

Spoon out the dough onto a slightly floured surface and roll out to fit a 9-inch pie dish. To transfer, wrap it around the rolling pin first. You could also just shape the dough in the pie dish to fit , instead of rolling it. The crust has to come up the sides of your baking dish.

Prick the crust with fork, cover with foil and place a small cast iron pan on top for the weight, or wrap a brick into the foil and place on top. This will prevent the crust from rising while it bakes.

Bake in preheated 400F oven for 20 min. Remove foil during the last 5 min of baking.

Beat all the filling ingredients together, except for the jam, pears and preserves.

Reduce the oven temp. to 350F. Spread the raspberry OR strawberry jam on the bottom of the crust and spoon over the filling.

Drain the pears and arrange them, cut side down, in the filling. If using fresh pears, halve them first, core and boil in small amount of water until soft.

Sprinkle the sliced almonds over the top and bake for 30 min., until firm and golden brown.

Microwave the peach OR apricot preserves for about 30 sec, or until liquidy. Brush the preserves over top of your tart like a glaze.

Serve with whipped cream or ice cream on top for a double pleasure.

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Comments

trigger 1 year, 1 month ago said:
What a wonderful tart printed and Flagged as beautiful.
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mamalou 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Love this recipe! A must try for me!

chefelaine 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Great recipe, and thank you for sharing! FIVE! :+D

leonora5 1 year, 1 month ago said:
Very special combination.

elgab89 1 year ago said:
WOW! How delicious! I have to try this one, too!

krumkake 11 months ago said:
Pear and almond go together so well...this is indeed something different, and one I can't resist - beautiful picture, too, Juels. Thanks for another great share...Krum

pieplate 9 months, 4 weeks ago said:
Seriously: you can't get your kids to eat fruit pies?! My grown son learned that I had offered pie as the dessert when we entertained some friends, and he said, plaintively, "You made pie when I wasn't there?"

I also love pear+almond.

momo_55grandma 9 months, 1 week ago said:
Fantastic tart thanks high5 love pears

murka 7 months, 2 weeks ago said:
My kids will love this!

jolielives 1 month ago said:
Yummy my tummy wants.
Bookmarked & 5ved

notyourmomma 3 days, 6 hours ago said:
Almonds, pears and raspberry heaven and in a whole wheat crust too!! Yummy. Lovely picture. sure wish I had your talent to snap my creations.....mine are all yellow toned and the food looks funny. I'm not a food stylist by far, but it doesn't need to look mellow yellow all the time. LOL

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