Make the most of the last of the seasonal plums — or use tinned plums if necessary — for this delicious tart. I have changed it up with a puff pastry base that doesn’t need blind baking. It works equally well with other seasonal fruit, such as feijoas and guavas.
Ingredients
| 300 g | Puff pastry |
| 150 g | Butter, softened |
| 150 g | Caster sugar |
| 3 | Eggs |
| 150 g | Ground almonds |
| 1 Tbsp | Self raising flour |
| ½ cup | White chocolate chips |
| 6 medium | Plums, halved, stones removed (Main) |
| ¼ cup | Almond flakes |
| 1 sprinkle | Icing sugar, for dusting |
| 1 cup | Whipped cream, to serve |
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Directions
- Preheat an oven to 180C.
- On a lightly floured bench roll the pastry to ¼cm, and a little bigger than a 23cm flan tin. Line the tin with pastry, then cut any excess from the edges.
- In a bowl beat together the butter, sugar, eggs, almonds and flour until smooth, then stir in the chocolate. Pour it into the pastry and smooth with a spoon. Press the plums lightly into the mixture, cut-side down.
- Sprinkle with almonds and place into the bottom half of the oven for 40 minutes. Check it isn't browning too quickly. If it is, place a piece of tinfoil over the tart and continue to cook for 15-20 minutes until it is set in the middle.
- Remove and cool in the tin for 15 minutes before removing from the tin.
- Dust with icing sugar and serve with whipped cream.
