Figtastic fig tart

Figtastic fig tart

Ingredients
  • Crust
  • 1 1/4 cup flour
  • 4 teaspoons sugar
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick butter, frozen
  • 1 egg, whisked into 1/4 cup ice water.
  • Whisk together flour, sugar and salt in a small bowl.
Instructions
  1. BAKING TIP OF TODAY: freeze your stick of butter, and then grate it over the flour mixture, which will make it really easy to mix together into the flour. Then stir in the egg wash, start by using half of it, and add gradually until the dough holds together.
  2. PERSONALLY, i don’t care for flour sticking on my hands….its a bit of a phobia…..so I would take the dough, and pour it over a piece of plastic wrap and kneed it together inside the plastic, so none stick to my fingers
  3. When the dough just keeps together, wrap in plastic and chill until proceeding.
  4. When cold, cut in half, and roll each doug piece on a floured surface, until a thin round about 8 inch circle.
  5. This is going to be a rustic tart, so no need to be precise.
  6. Spread with some cooled Fig Jam, above, or purchased, over the center of the dough, keeping a 2 inch border.
  7. Then over the fig jam, lay some fresh figs cut in half or quarters, semi decoratively.
  8. Now fold up the two inch border, to create a raised edge of the dough.
  9. Almost, done, just a few steps left.
  10. Brush the figs with some fig jam (commercial) or other jam, melted with butter over the figs.
  11. Brush some egg wash (1 egg whisked with 1/4 cup of cream) over the dough part. Then sprinkle with sugar.
  12. Bake in a preheated oven for 40 minutes or until the dough is browned.
  13. Just FIG’s for a figtastic tart?,
  14. no this could be any fruit.
  15. So crust, easy to make. fill it with anything you got, apricots, plums, strawberries, apples, etc.
  16. You can spread a little jam of the same flavor as the fruit you are filling it with, or you can skip the jam.
  17. It’s your dessert. So you make it:
  18. fig-tastic
  19. plum-tiffic
  20. strawberry-extra ordinary
  21. any which way you like it.