Date and Frangipane Tart
( SERVES 8 )
11/7/2011
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Pastry
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| 1¾ cups | Flour |
| ¾ cup | Icing sugar |
| 175 g | Butter |
| 1 | Egg |
Filling
| 125 g | Butter |
| 1 cup | Caster sugar |
| 1 | Orange |
| 1 tsp | Vanilla essence/extract |
| 2 | Eggs |
| 2 cups | Almonds - ground |
| ¼ cup | Standard flour |
| 14 | Medjool dates |
Directions
- Place flour and icing sugar in the bowl of a food processor. With the motor running, drop in butter pieces
until the mixture resembles rough crumbs. Add 1 egg and pulse just until the mixture binds together. - Tip pastry out onto a surface and wrap in plastic cling film. Chill for 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 180 degC. To make filling, beat butter and sugar until pale and creamy, add 1 tbsp of grated orange rind, vanilla and then eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix in the ground almonds and flour.
- Roll out pastry to a 3 to 4mm thickness. Line a 26cm pie tin with pastry.
- Pour filling over pastry base and then arrange sliced in half, pip removed dates over the surface, pressing gently into the mixture.
- Bake for 40 minutes until puffed and set on top, with the pastry lightly golden.
- Serve warm or at room temperature, with cream.
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