Pear Frangipane
- pastry dough
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 14 teaspoon salt
- 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter (cut into small pieces)
- 2 tablespoons ice water
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 23 cup granulated sugar
- 34 cup ground almonds
- 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1 egg
- 1 egg white
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 3 soft ripe pears (peeled, cut into halves lengthwise and cored)
- To prepare pastry, place flour and salt in the bowl of a food processor.
- Pulse to blend.
- Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Add ice water; pulse until a ball barely forms.
- Gather into a ball, wrap with plastic wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 375F.
- Roll out dough and place into a 9-inch tart pan with a removable bottom.
- Press pastry up the sides and trim the top even with the rim of pan, if needed.
- Bake 20 minutes.
- Let cool.
- To prepare frangipane, place butter and granulated sugar in the bowl of a food processor; process until smooth.
- Add almonds and blend.
- Add flour, cornstarch, egg and egg white.
- Process until smooth.
- Add vanilla and almond extracts; blend well.
- Spread frangipane in pastry.
- Slice each pear half horizontally into 1/2 inch thick slices, but do not separate.
- Slide each pear half into frangipane, nestling into mixture.
- Press, spreading the pear slices slightly.
- Bake about 40 minutes, until frangipane is puffy and golden.
pastry, flour, salt, cold unsalted butter, water, butter, sugar, ground almonds, flour, cornstarch, egg, egg, vanilla, almond
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/pear-frangipane-447979 (may not work)