Fig and Frangipane Tart with Lemon Mascarpone

By ctozzi

Ingredients

• For lemon Mascarpone:
• 4-5 figs
• 125 g butter,softened
• 125 g icing sugar,plus extra for dusting
• 2 whole eggs,beaten
• 125 g ground almonds
• 25 g flour
• 250 g puff pastry
• 1 egg yolk,for glazing
• Approx 250 g mascarpone
• 1 lemon,zest only
• icing sugar

Details

Servings 4

Preparation

Step 1

1.Heat the oven to 350 F
2.Add icing sugar to taste in the mascarpone,grate in the zest of a lemon and mix throughly then place in the fridge until ready to use-the consistency will need to be stiff enough to form clean quenelles.
3.To make the frangipane,cream the butter,sugar,flour and almonds together.Slowly add the eggs mixing until fully incorporated.Rest the frangipane for 5 min.
4.Roll out the puff pastry thinly on a lightly floured surface to a 2 mm thickness.Using a 13 cm plate as a gide,cut out 4 rounds and place on two large baking sheets.Leave a 1,5 cm lip around the edge of the pastry pricking the centre of each disk with a fork to stop it puffing up.
5.Smooth the frangipane over the centre of the pastry-leaving a 1,5 cm border.Egg yolk around the outside and dust with icing sugar.Bake in the oven for 4-5 min.
6.Slice the figs in to 5 iven pieces.Remove the tarts from the oven and arrange the figs on top.Dust with a little more icing sugar and bake again until the pastry is crisp and golden-approximately 8 min.
7.Remove the mascarpone mix from the fridge.Heat a dessertspoon in hot water then form a quenelle of lemon mascarpone and place in the centre of each finished tart.