Black Fig Tart with Mascarpone

Name: Black Fig Tart with Mascarpone
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 500 g puff pastry (preferably made with all butter); 12 slightly firm, black Italian figs; 500 g puff pastry (preferably made with all butter); 60 g butter; 30 g icing sugar; 200 g mascarpone, to serve

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

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By Adam Byatt

Published 2010

About

Crisp puff pastry, soft jammy figs and creamy mascarpone - this dish has it all as a classy dessert. As with melons, when you are choosing figs they should generally taste as good as they smell.

Ingredients

500 g puff pastry (preferably made with all butter)
12 slightly firm, black Italian figs
60

Dessert
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Preparation

Roll out the pastry on a floured surface until it is the size of an A4 sheet of paper and about 2mm thick. Place the pastry on a baking sheet and chill in the fridge for 20 minutes.

Slice the figs.

Preheat the oven to 240°C/220°C fan/gas 8.