Tarte à l’abricot

Name: Tarte à l’abricot (Apricot Tart)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: Serve 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 60 g/2¼ oz butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 1 egg, beaten; 60 g/2¼ oz/heaped ½ cup ground almonds; 4 tbsp whipping cream; 85 g/3 oz/¼ cup smooth apricot jam; 1 recipe quantity Sweet Short Pastry or 225 g/8 oz ready made shortcrust pastry; plain flour, for dusting; 60 g/2¼ oz/¼ cup caster sugar; 40 g/1½ oz/½ cup toasted almond flakes; 800 g/1 lb 12 oz ripe apricots, halved and stoned; a few drops of vanilla extract

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