Good Mood Recipe
Nectarine Plum Peach Torte
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Nectarine Plum Peach Torte - Stone fruit at it's best!
Difficulty:
moderate
Difficulty
Preparation:
1 hr 25 min.
Preparation
ready in 1 hr 55 min.
Ready in
Ingredients
for
6
- For the pastry
- 1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup butter (softened)
- 2 egg yolks
- 1 Tbsp caster sugar
- For the filling
- ½ cup caster sugar
- ⅔ cup butter
- Almond extract
- 2 eggs (beaten)
- 2 cups Almond flour
- ½ cup plain flour
- 3 Nectarine (thickly sliced)
- 2 Peaches (thickly sliced)
- 4 red Plum (thickly sliced)
- To glaze
- 3 Tbsps Apricot Jam (jelly)
- To decorate
- Strawberries
- Strawberry Leaf lettuce variety
- Strawberry flower
- powdered sugar
Preparation steps
1.
For the pastry: mix together the flour, butter, egg yolks and sugar with your hands, to form a dough. Wrap in cling film and chill for 30 minutes.
2.
Heat the oven to 190°C / 375°F. Lightly grease a 9" flan pan or tin.
3.
Roll out the pastry on a floured surface and line the tin. Prick the pastry all over with a fork, line the pastry case with non-stick baking paper and fill with rice or dried beans. Bake for 10 minutes. Remove the paper and beans and prick the base with a fork. Bake for a further 10-15 minutes until golden and cooked through.
4.
For the filling: whisk the sugar and butter together until smooth. Beat in the almond extract and eggs, followed by the almonds and flour.
5.
Spoon into the pastry case, arrange the fruit slices on top and bake for 30-40 minutes until golden.
6.
Warm the jam and brush over the top of the fruit. Decorate with strawberries, strawberry leaves and flowers. Sift a little icing sugar over the top.
