Tuesdays with Dorie (Baking Chez Moi): Apricot Raspberry Tart

This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie post features gorgeous summer fruits in a dessert perfect for a warm summer’s evening (or, in this case, a cool-ish British summer night!). Made with Dorie’s simple sweet shortcrust pastry, the crust can either be rolled out or pressed into the tart pan (we used a glass pie dish because that’s what he had on hand), before you blind bake it making it a simple-to-assemble dessert which, quite frankly, would work with a lot of different fruits, not just raspberries and apricots.

The apricots are placed in the tart shell on top of either ladyfingers or cake/ brioche crumbs, presumably to make sure the pastry doesn’t go soggy when the apricots are cooking. I used “trifle sponge” crumbs but actually didn’t really see the point. Our apricots were not soft-ripe, they were just right, so they didn’t go soggy at all when they were baked – they held their shape nicely.

The raspberries and pistachios are scattered over the tart a little later on in the baking, presumably so that the raspberries don’t completely disintegrate and so the pistachios don’t burn.

We served this with a dollop of whipped cream that we mixed with Greek yoghurt for a tangy twist…

Verdict? We loved this tart – not too sweet and not too heavy. We did think that if anything, it was a tiny bit on the dry side (ironic since the ladyfingers or crumbs were added to the recipe to soak up any juices from the fruits) – there’s kind of nothing to hold it together – and wondered about a little Greek yoghurt, fromage frais or cream/ goat cheese spread thinly under the apricots? And perhaps a drizzle of a glaze on top? In any case, noone really minded and the plates were clean

And, I mean it IS gorgeous, right?

Get the recipe for Dorie Greenspan’s Apricot-Raspberry Tart on p 145 of Baking Chez Moi.

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