Pear Tart
A wonderful lightly sweetened dessert for any time of day!
Servings 6
Ingredients
- Filling
- 4-5 Medium very ripe pears
- 1 Tbsp Lemon juice
- 1 Tbsp cornstarch
- 1-3 Tbsp light brown sugar depending on how sweet your pears are.
- 1/8 tsp cinnamon
- small pinch of salt
- Crust
- 1 cup Outrageous Baking flour
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 5 Tbsp Butter
- 2 Tbsp buttermilk cream, or your choice of milk
- 3 Tbsp ice water
- Glaze
- 1 tsp honey
- 1/4 tsp hot water
Instructions
- Peel pears and make 1/4 inch slices. Place in a bowl and mix with lemon juice, cornstarch, sugar and cinnamon.
- Mix pie crust ingredients in a Cuisinart adding the cold water last.
- Roll pie crust dough btwn saran wrap to make 6 inch circle, might look more oblong and that is ok
- Place crust on parchment paper on a cookie sheet
- Pile pear mixture in the middle leaving an inch around the edge to fold in.
- Fold edge in (if crust breaks just put back together like play dough)
- Bake at 425 for 15 minutes
- Reduce heat to 350 and continue baking till crust in browned and pears are soft (approximately 45 more minutes)
- Prepare glaze by mixing the honey and the hot water
- Brush the edges of the crust and on top with the glaze and bake 5 more minutes
- Cool before cutting about 1/2 hour
Notes
This tart is excellent alone but also is quite delicious with a scoop of your favorite ice cream, or yogurt.
Adapted from The Food Network
