Almond Tart
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
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Pastry
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1⁄2 cup cold butter, cut into bits
- 1 tablespoon water, with
- 1⁄2 teaspoon vanilla, and
- 1⁄8 teaspoon almond extract
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Filling
- 1 cup sliced blanched almond
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 3⁄4 cup cream
- 1 teaspoon orange-flavored liqueur (such as Grand Marnier or Cointreau)
- 1⁄8 teaspoon almond extract
- 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
- whipped cream (optional)
directions
- For pastry: Blend flour, sugar and butter until it resembles coarse meal.
- Add water with vanilla and almond extract and form dough into a ball.
- Press dough into a 9 inch flan/tart pan and chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 390°F.
- Line with wax paper or foil and fill with pie weights or beans.
- Bake pastry in lower third of preheated oven for 7 minutes.
- Remove pie weights and paper and bake 3 minutes longer, or until golden.
- Let cool.
- For filling: Combine well almonds, sugar, cream, liqueur, almond extract and salt; let stand 15 minutes.
- Pour into pastry shell and bake for 30-40 minutes, or until top is browned and caramelized.
- Let cool before serving.
- Serve with whipped cream, if you wish.
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OK, here goes. I live in Athens, Greece. I moved out here many, many years ago from Ottawa, Canada - so I am blessed in having two wonderful heritages!
I suffer from compulsive obsessive behaviour with regard to food and my psychiatrist thought it would be a good idea to find a 'society' where many have the same problem and try to find a cure.
So far, I've copied a couple of thousand recipes from this site and my psychiatrist has thrown the towel in and refuses to answer the phone when I call.
What did I do wrong?
Got 3 kids that keep me on the go - 10 and under at this point (2008) - I may not get round to updating this for a few years, so you'll have to do your own maths.
I teach English full-time and Greek Cookery part-time. I would like to make the cooking part of it full-time and the English Grammar part of it part-time.
That's all for now.