Roman Holiday Dessert tart

Roman Holiday Dessert tart


Shopping List:

100 gr raisins
140 gr mixed glacé fruits, chopped fine
3 tablespoons orange juice ( if you like a tipple, use rum)
300 gr sweet dessert pastry

50 gr plain flour
175 gr softened butter
175 gr golden caster sugar
175 gr ground almonds
5  large eggs, beaten (free range please)
85 gr pine nuts

2 tablespoons clear honey (acacia or manuka)
and some extra for drizzling before serving

Ceramic Baking beans and baking paper


Put your raisins and the glacé fruits in your bowl with the orange juice ( or rum) and let it soak for a good hour.
In the mean time you can roll out the pastry on a clean and lightly flour dusted surface. Line your deep 23 cm loose bottomed tin with the pastry. Leave the pastry overhanging the edges and prick the base with a fork. Chill it in your fridge or larder for 1 hour.

preheat your oven to 200 C. and cut off the edges with your rolling pin, by rolling over the tin whilst pressing slightly. Fill your pastry case first with baking paper and then with the ceramic baking beans.
Put the pastry in your preheated oven for 8 minutes. Then you can remove the baking paper with the beans and bake some more for 4-5 minutes. Allow the pastry to cool a little.

Now you beat the butter, sugar, ground almonds, flour and the beaten eggs. Mix the fruits into it and pour it into your prebaked pastry case. Scatter the pine nuts over it making sure that you press them in a little. Drizzle it with the clear honey. (Acacia or Manuka)

Put the tart back in your oven and then turn the heat down to 180C. Bake it for 40 - 50 minutes until firm to the touch. Keep an eye out so as you can see your tart will colour too quickly, if it does cover it with some aluminium foil.

Let it cool in the tin. If you want you can freeze it up to 3 months but i doubt it will last.
It may not look like the prettiest tart but if you slice it and serve it with a drizzle of clear honey and maybe some cream, it's a lovely dessert after a lovely dinner party. With some espresso or cappucino next to it. Or even a nice dessert wine!  When in Rome as they say!


                                                                    "Enjoy"