Candied Plantain Tarts
- 3/4 cup Butter
- Pinch of Salt
- 3/4 cup confectioners sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 cups plus 2 tablespoon cake flour
- 3/4 cup chopped pecans
- 3 ripe plantains
- water
- 6 tablespoons superfine sugar
- Make the Topping Preheat oven to 350.
- Butter and flour a cookie sheet and set aside.
- Place butter, salt, confectioners' sugar and vanilla in mixer and mix until fluffy.
- Add flour and pecans and mix by hand until a dough forms.
- Be careful and do not overmix or dough will toughen.
- Chill dough for 1/2 hour or overnight.
- Roll dough out to 1/4-inch thickness and cut out 4-inch disks.
- Bake them on prepared sheet for 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown.
- Make the Topping Cut plantains very thin on bias.
- Arrange thin slices on the baked pecan pastry disks in concentric circles.
- Moisten the plantains and dust heavily with the sugar.
- Broil or heat with kitchen blow torch until a thick hard caramel forms.
butter, salt, confectioners sugar, vanilla, cake flour, pecans, plantains, water, sugar
Taken from www.foodandwine.com/recipes/candied-plantain-tarts (may not work)