Almond Joy Tart

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    six

    4 inch Individual Tarts
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

  • About

Though I am not a true coconut person, people go bonkers for our coconut cakes and coconut macaroons, especially at our charleston location, where coconut is king. And I have managed to work my way into the coconut groove with this riff on the Almond Joy. That legendary candy bar was the creation of the Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing Company of Connecticut, now absorbed by Hershey’s. Mr. Peter Paul Halajian certainly knew his way around coconut: He developed the Almond Joy’