Chocolate, pear and almond tart

Name: Chocolate, pear and almond tart
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: Serves: 8
Ingredients: 115 g caster sugar; 115 g butter, cubed; 4 ripe, firm pears; 4 large eggs; 250 g dark chocolate, grated; 55 g nibbed hazelnuts or roughly chopped mixed nuts; 1 orange, grated zest; few drops of vanilla essence; 2 tablespoons apricot jam; 2 tablespoons water; 85 g plain flour; 300–400 g ready made sweet pastry; 55 g ground almonds; 1 quantity of 2-minute chocolate sauce, to serve

Preparation info

Serves:
8

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 10

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

After two years of badgering my local baker in France for this tart recipe I finally traded it for my honey flapjack recipe – we both thought we had a good deal! The grass is always greener on the other side, as they say.

Ingredients

300–400 g ready made sweet pastry
85 g plain flour
55 g

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Line the tin with baking parchment. Roll the pastry to a diameter of 25 cm and ease into the lined tin. Prick the base of the tart several times with a fork to prevent the pastry rising.
In a mixing bowl, rub together the flour, ground almonds, caster sugar and but