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Plum and marzipan tarte tatin

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. 100g/3½oz marzipan
  2. about 75g/3oz light muscovado sugar
  3. about 9 ripe large plums, halved and stones removed
  4. 1 x 320g/11½oz pack all-butter puff pastry
  5. Cut
  6. ice cream, cream or crème fraîche, to serve (optional)
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 220C/425F/Gas 7 (200C fan).
  2. Sprinkle the sugar over the base of the cake tin in an even layer.
  3. Arrange the plums on top of the sugar, cut-side down.
  4. Roll out the marzipan thinly to a round slightly smaller than the tin and place on top of the plums.
  5. Roll out the pastry just a little bit bigger so that it is the width of the cake tin. Cut around the tin to make a circle, lay the pastry over the plums and tuck the edges of the pastry down around the fruit. Make a small cross in the top of the pastry to let the steam out.
  6. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden-brown and the plums are tender.
  7. Loosen the edges of the tart, then turn out onto a plate and serve with ice cream, cream or crème fraîche.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Cake tin
  • Chef's knife
  • Rolling pin
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Credit

By: Mary Berry. From the programme: Mary Berry Cooks. Saved from BBC Food, file Recipes/bbcfood-archives/plum_and_marzipan_tarte_96932.html in the Internet Archive item cooking-recipes (https://archive.org/details/cooking-recipes).

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