Cheat’s crème brûlée tart

Name: Cheat’s crème brûlée tart
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves: 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 300–400 g ready made sweet pastry; 12 pitted prunes; 100 ml brandy; 70 g packet crème caramel mix (see tips); 400 ml double cream; 100 g caster sugar

Preparation info

Serves:
8

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Why not make use of things available? This recipe has taken quite a lot of experimentation – the result is a foolproof version of an exceptional French tart. The method is quite advanced, but the result is well worth the effort.

Ingredients

300–400 g ready made sweet pastry
12 pitted prunes
100 ml

Europe
France
Dessert
Mediterranean
Vegetarian

Method

Halve the prunes and put into a saucepan with the brandy. Bring to the boil, simmer for 2 minutes and leave to cool.
Line the tin with baking parchment. Roll out the pastry to 35cm diameter and lay it inside the lined tin, easing it in gently. Do not trim at this point and simply repair any breaks by pushing the pastry back together. Cut a second piece of parch