![]() ![]() Roll out puff pastry to a 9 x 13 rectangle. My Pear Frangipane Tart recipe is very similar but the look is better for the larger fruit. Pears are also good but I recommend changing the styling for them. You can use other stone fruit like apricots or peaches as well. What’s this about boozy fruit? Most people will use fresh plums in their plum tarts, but I used plums that were preserved in brandy last fall (see my brandied plums post for more information). ![]() It is also possible to make frangipane with other nuts like hazelnuts or pistachios. If you want to grind your own you will need to take care to get it finely ground but stop before it becomes almond butter. People will grind their own, but I use almond flour enough to keep it around. I use finely ground blanched almond flour. You can also use a standard pie crust if you’d like but then you should blind bake it first (see King Arthur for how to blind bake)įrangipane Filling. I used Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry since the size is very close to my pan size (7 x 11″) which means very little rolling. Makes beautiful use of seasonal stone fruit (or boozy fruit saved from prior harvest-see Ingredients below for this option).A flakey pie crust that you don’t need to make yourself since it uses commercial puff pastry.But happily, you can make frangipane with just the (sweet) almonds! Yum! Why you’ll love this tartĪnd in the end there are so many reasons to love this tart! These include Now almond extract doesn’t have the chemical, just the flavor, so it’s safe–which doesn’t help if it still tastes bad to you. And as it turns out, that bitter almond chemical can turn into cyanide poison if eaten. The extract, however, derives its flavor from a chemical in the bitter almond. Most people like the sweet almond but the bitter flavor is loved by some and hated by others.Ĭommercial almonds in the US are the sweet variety. But as I did some research, it turns out there are two kinds of almonds, bitter and sweet. Something about this had always confused me, though, since I like almonds themselves. Since frangipane is made from almonds, and I hate almond extract, I always figured I wouldn’t like it. Now for years, I’d looked at frangipane tarts sadly. Per Wikipedia, frangipane “is a sweet almond-flavored custard used in a variety of ways including cakes and such pastries as the Bakewell tart… Today it is normally made of butter, sugar, eggs, and ground almonds.“ What is frangipane and why doesn’t it taste like almond extract? I am now officially addicted, but my love for this was a long time coming. And with my Sunday blogging friends doing stone fruit recipes, I thought I’d make a plum tart. With ripe plums and rich almond cream atop a flaky crust, plum frangipane tart is a beautiful dessert that’s super easy to make!Īwhile back I made a pear frangipane tart that I loved. ![]()
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