Chocolate and pear frangipane tart
Divinely decadent, with both a crunchy and silky texture, this chocolate and pear frangipane tart is set to impress.. Chocolate biscuits such as Romany Creams or Chocolate Dreams make up the main element of the base for this tart.
The recipe comes from the fabulous Tina Bester of Queen of Tarts. and was created for Moirs and for her Love to Bake range. Tina demonstrated how to make this tart at the Goodhousekeeping Magazine ‘Love to Bake‘ reader’s event recently and I found it quite delicious.
I adore Tina’s cookbooks – in particular ‘Bake’, so was thrilled when she said I could share this recipe with you on Drizzle and Dip.
*cooks notes ~ I made two minor tweaks. I used Muscovado sugar in the poaching liquid instead of 1/2 a cup of maple syrup. This was purely for fiscal reasons, maple syrup is ridiculously expensive. I also used 200g Moirs Chocolate Dream biscuits and 100g Moirs Choc Krust, and it all worked out well. Chocolate dreams are like a classic Romany Cream chocolate biscuit.
The pears which are poached in verjuice have a slight tart flavour which balances out the sweetness of the biscuit base. If I made this again I would leave out the almond essence as I found it too overpowering in this recipe.
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Recipe | 1 tart serves 8 – 12
Chocolate and pear frangipane tart
Ingredients
crust:
- 300 g Moirs Chocolate Dreams biscuits or Bakers Romany Creams crushed
- 120 g butter melted
- 3 pears peeled
- 375 ml verjuice
- 1/4 cup Muscavado sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence or extract
chocolate frangipane:
- 125 g castor sugar
- 125 g butter
- 2 eggs
- 3 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 100 g ground almonds/almond flour
- 50 g flaked almonds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C and mix the crushed biscuits and the melted butter in a bowl.
- Empty this into a 23cm – 26cm loose-bottomed tart tin and gently press the mixture into the sides. Place the tart onto a baking tray and bake blind for 8 minutes.
- Peel the pears and cut them in half. In a medium, pot heat the verjuice, sugar, and vanilla. cook the pears for 8 minutes. Remove from the liquid, and set aside to cool.
- For the frangipane, mix the butter and castor sugar in a food processor and add each egg while the motor is still running. Add the cocoa and almonds and blend well.
- Spoon the frangipane into the tart case. Remove the cores from the pears and slice these (in a fan shape), and arrange them on the frangipane. Scatter over the sliced almonds.
- Bake for 30 – 35 minutes until the frangipane is cooked through (bake on a tray in case any butter leaks out)
Notes
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Oh my word, Sam! This looks yummy!!
Beautiful tart, it reminds me of one I saw in a bakery in Florence. (Love your marble slab, I have one similar :))
Oh man, I just keep coming back for more! Keep up the beautiful work, this looks amazing as usual.
Emily
Thanks Emily 🙂
Hi Laura, that cost me $3 at a market 🙂 #winning
I just spent 45 minutes trying to find a decent looking chocolate pear tart – then up pops one in Feedly. How did that happen?
Stunning and so so drool-worthy 😀
Glad you found this recipe of Tina’s then 🙂
Thanks so much for the lovely mention on your blog.
Hi Sam. Excuse my ignorance, but what is verjuice? If I can’t find it in the shops (cause I’ve never heard of it which also means I’ve never looked for it) is there anything that I can substitute? This recipe looks delicious by the way. I want to try it out for a family dinner on Saturday. Thanks. Kim
Hi Kim
verjuice is the juice of unfermented grapes – so you can use white wine instead (dry or off dry). It has a lovely flavour.
thanks
sam