French Cherry Tart

I took a break and happen to get Laura Calder on the Cooking Channel.  She is so refreshing and I love to watch her" French Food at Home".  Unfortunately she is not on each day and seems to get moved around a lot on the network.

This tart  was super easy to make.  The worst part of the tart was pitting the cherries.  I can  managed to get Steve to do prep if it involves dessert so I did not have to worry about the cherry pitting.  He also just cracked a bag of hazelnuts with the hope for a dessert the I made him last year.  God bless him because I hate to crack nuts!!

This recipe calls for a tart pan but I used a 9 inch spring form pan.

 

 

The texture was similar to a soft cheese cake .  The crust has sugar in it and was somewhat cookie

like.  I am not a crust fan but this was tasty.  On the show she cooks the crust first but in the recipe it does not indicate to do so.  I did not cook the crust first and it came out fine.  The dough for the crust got soft when I was rolling out so I popped it into the freezer and then finished the crust by patting it in. hint: roll dough between wax or parchment paper.  Also the baking time is a bit longer, more like 40 minutes.

 

I would think almost any fruit could be substituted such as blackberries, raspberries fresh peaches etc.

 

 

Click here for the recipe:.http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/laura-calder/cherry-tart.html

 

Do not file this away make it.  A great recipe to make if you are short on time and company is coming.