Description
This delightful, warming dessert is quick to make and a pleasure to eat.
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter, chilled
- ½ cup cream cheese
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- 2 apples – peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
- 1 pear – peeled, cored and sliced
- ¼ cup orange juice
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 ½ tablespoons cornstarch
- ½ cup apricot jam, warmed
Instructions
- Cut the cold butter and cream cheese into the flour with a knife or pastry blender until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs. (This can also be done in a food processor: pulse the cold butter into the flour until the mixture resembles cornmeal; add the cream cheese and pulse until it’s the size of small peas.) When you squeeze a handful of the mixture
- it should form a ball. Shape the dough into a round disk
- wrap it in plastic
- and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
- Toss the sliced apples and pear with the orange juice. Whisk together the brown sugar
- cinnamon
- nutmeg
- cardamom
- and cornstarch. Toss the fruit with the sugar-spice mixture and set aside.
- Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Set out an 8-inch tart pan
- or
- if you’ll be making a free-form tart (galette)
- lightly grease a baking sheet.
- Roll the pastry out on a lightly floured work surface to form a 10-inch circle. Transfer the dough to the tart pan or baking sheet. Arrange the fruit decoratively in the tart pastry. If you’re baking the tart on a baking sheet
- leave a 2-inch rim of dough and fold it up over the edge of the fruit (the pastry folds will overlap).
- Bake the tart in the preheated oven until the crust is browned and the filling is bubbly
- about 30 minutes. Remove the tart from the oven and brush it with the apricot jam.
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 30 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins
Servings: 8