Malted Crisp Tart

Preparation info
  • Yield:

    one

    9 inch Tart
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked Explorations: Classic American Desserts Reinvented

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2010

  • About

Truth be told, my search for treasured and heritage-inspired tart recipes was a little bleak. I dug up hundreds of heirloom pie and cookie and cake recipes, but the tart recipes were extremely scarce, or incomplete, or not really tarts. Instead, I tasked pastry chef extraordinaire Melissa Fritz Walters with creating a tart that is a little bit malty and little bit crispy, and she built the tart of my candy-colored dreams. The Malted Crisp Tart is a Melissa-original, and it quickly became my