Fine Prune Tart

Name: Fine Prune Tart
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 2½ tablespoons caster sugar; 15 g/½ oz good butter, at room temperature; 225 g/8 oz frozen puff pastry; 100 g/4 oz soft pitted prunes

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

This crispy caramelized tart is exceptionally delicious as well as being easy to make. It is certainly grand enough for a dinner party. Serve with crème fraîche or a good vanilla ice cream. The frozen pastry will thaw at room temperature in one hour or less.

Ingredients

225 g/8 oz frozen puff pastry
15 g/½

Dessert
Pastry
Vegetarian

Method

Cut the pastry in half and shape the halves into 2 balls. Roll them out very thinly on a floured surface into 2 roughly circular shapes, about 25-27.5 cm/10-11 in in diameter. Put one circle on a large, bu