Friday, April 20, 2012

Puff pastry tart

This is an old one, but delicious enough it's worth posting nonetheless.  The last WM5D meeting, which really is just a party, I made a fruit tart the easy way.  Well, two fruit tarts.  The crust was just puff pastry, and the topping for one was frozen mixed berries, and the other was apples.  Topped with whipped cream, this was pretty tasty.  Six of us had no trouble polishing off both tarts!

Ali attacks her tart like a predatory bird.  Velociraptor?


For the apple tart, I peeled and cored the apples, and then cooked them with sugar and butter for ~30min, until they were soft and simmering in their own juices and tasting pretty intense and delicious. Spread on the puff pastry crust and cook according to the directions on the package.  I forget how long that took.  

For the berry tart, I thawed a package of mixed frozen berries.  I spread the berries on the tart, and boiled down the juice until it was thicker and more intense.  That one was also pretty delicious.  I recommend making both of these.  If you're feeling super ambitious, you could cut the puff pastry into squares and fold it in half, to make a turnover, but the ratio of filling to crust was just about perfect with the tart.  

Go forth and make pie!

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