Tarte tropézienne

A glass of Muscat de Beaumes de Venise is the perfect accompaniment to this rich, creamy cake from the south of France. It would be pleasing to report that this is an age-old recipe from St Tropez, but it came to the village, as it was then, with a Polish baker, Alexandre Micka, in the 1950s. He was responsible for the catering for Roger Vadim’s film, Et Dieu créa la femme and it was Brigitte Bardot who suggested a name for the cake. Although always called a tarte, by which we