Baked Pear Tart

So today's treat is a pear tart. This is a tart shell with a layer of apricot jam then a stack of fresh pears on top. I am really liking the tarts because they are a quick and simple dessert to make. At most I spend an hour preparing and baking everything to make a final product. These would be good for an emergency dessert if unannounced guests came over. The only really labor intensive part of the tart is the shell and even that can be thrown together in a stand mixer.

This recipe calls for partially baking the shell before you put in the filling. With such a quick cooking filling if the shell was not partially baked before hand you would be left with a very moist maybe not even cooked final product.

By itself the tart shell smells fantastic almost like a cookie, though I guess that the make up of the shell is very similar to a sugar cookie anyway. With the last tart I was picking at the left over shell bits as people took their slices.

Since everything is now in the oven for its final bake soon I will have pictures up.