Category: Dessert

Raspberry Walnut Frangipane Tart

go nuts for this tart

There is something very very right about raspberries and walnuts  – they seem to melt into the frangipane cream here and the combination is one of those where the tart is definitely more than the sum of its parts.  While its a delight to use raspberries in season, this smart tart can  be made just as well with frozen raspberries in case you need to create something impressive in colder months.  This recipe involves proper tart making ie making a crust before “Blind baking” and then filling and baking the filling.  Its not as fiddly or time consuming as you think and I for one just love the satisfaction of a properly made tart and easing it out of its case.

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Frangipane tart filling for Posh Tarts

Old school French patisserie  – make it trad with almonds or experiment with other nuts

 

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Frangipane is a cream made with butter, eggs and traditionally almonds which provides the most moist and sumptuous setting for all kinds of fruits set in a tart. Flavour it up with amaretto and add cherries, keep it trad with almond extract and plums, add a bit of orange zest and sherry for a “Santiago” type tart, add cinnamon  and make with hazlenuts for a very very sophisticated apple tart, change the nuts and experiment with walnuts, pecans and even pistachios.  Once you have mastered this only your imagination will limit the types of tarts you create. 

Here I’ve made it old school with a bowl and a wooden spoon – as long as your butter is softened, this is all that you need.  My “Go To” recipe is of course my Mum’s one. 

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Raspberry & Rosé Sorbet Shots

now this is summer 

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Credit for this genius recipe goes to the king of ices David Lebovitz  one of my all time favourite dessert cooks and this recipe features in his ice cream bible “The Perfect Scoop”.  Here I have used a gorgeous local off dry rosé and a little fructose to keep things very tart. Refreshing doesn’t really do the word justice. Somehow the wine lifts the raspberry flavour, the alcohol makes the mixture a little more scoopable and well its just magic. Three ingredients only,  proving that some of the best things in life are indeed very very simple. 

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