Tarte à l’abricot

Apricot Tart

Preparation info
  • Serve

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 15

Appears in
French Brasserie Cookbook

By Daniel Galmiche

Published 2011

  • About

L’Epiphany on 6 January is a big event in France. On that day, we traditionally serve a dessert called la Galette des Rois – a delicious layered feuilleté, or light puff pastry, filled with frangipane almond cream. Another tradition is to hide a coin in the dessert and whoever finds it (without breaking his or her teeth, we hope) gets the crown and is king or queen for the day. The recipe here is a twist on the classic. I use an almond cream that’s similar to frangipane, then add apricots a