Amaretto Tart

Name: Amaretto Tart
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Asia
Ingredients: about 75 g (2¾ oz) butter, melted; 250 g (9 oz) mixed summer fruit and berries; 400 g (16 oz) amaretti biscuits, crushed; grated zest of 2 oranges; sprigs of mint, to decorate; 1 tsp ground cinnamon; about 75 g (2¾ oz) skinned hazelnuts, coarsely chopped; 150 g (5½ oz) mascarpone cheese; 5 tbsp double cream; seeds from 1 vanilla pod; dash of amaretto liqueur

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Gate Vegetarian Cookbook

By Adrian Daniel and Michael Daniel

Published 2004

About

This is a particularly quick and easy summer dessert, especially if you make the bases three to four days ahead and then fill and top them at the last moment.

Ingredients

Bases

400 g (16 oz) amaretti biscuits, crushed
grated zest of 2 oranges

Asia
Dessert
Pastry
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

To make the bases, mix all the ingredients together and press one-quarter into an 8 cm (3¼ in) pastry cutter, bringing it up around the edge inside the cutter to form a concave centre. Chill briefly until the base comes out of the cutter easily, then make three more in the same way.
To make the filling, whip all the ingredients together until semi-whipped but stil