Honey Fig and Almond Tart
When it's fig season, (if you have a tree) you need every recipe you can come up with to use them all! We have had an absolute glut of figs this summer and as many as we eat, we give away twice that many. Although this dessert has honey, the figs are really the source of sweetness, though the almond paste does add sweetness as well.
If you don't usually like marzipan, don't worry, this is nothing like the purchased variety. You will be amazed at just how lovely it is. Almonds and figs are the perfect match.
Serve with or without cream.
Make sure you check out some of our other fig recipes here:
Marzipan Stuffed Chocolate Figs
Pedro Ximénez Infused Fig Truffles
Roasted Fig With Spicy Sausage Salad
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Need
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Pastry
- 100 Grams almonds toasted, cooled
- 50 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 130 Grams unsalted butter cubed and frozen BUY
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract BUY
- 1/2 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinches pink salt flakes BUY
- 210 Grams plain flour BUY
- 1 egg yolks
- 1 - 2 Tablespoons ice cold water
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Vanilla Scented Marzipan
- 130 Grams raw caster sugar BUY
- 130 Grams almond meal Recipe
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla bean paste BUY
- 1 Tablespoon cornflour or cornstarch
- 1 egg whites
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The Tart
- 250 Grams mascarpone cheese
- 1 eggs
- 20 Grams honey plus some more
- Enough fresh figs to line flan dish of choice, quartered
Do
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Pastry;
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Place almonds with sugar into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 8.
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Add butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt and mix 5 sec/speed 7.
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Add remaining pastry ingredients and mix 10 sec/dough setting/Interval.
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Turn out onto lightly floured Silicone mat and shape into a tight disc. Rest 30 minutes before rolling to line 20cm flan tin with removable base. Place in freezer while you prepare the filling.
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Vanilla Scented Marzipan;
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Place sugar and almond meal into Thermomix bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 8.
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Add vanilla, cornflour and egg white and mix 30-40 sec/speed 5, scraping down sides of bowl if necessary. Overdoing the blending at this stage can be risky, as the oil from the almonds can be released, thus rendering the marzipan useless.
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When marzipan has formed a reasonable dough, turn out onto corn floured silicone mat and roll out using rolling pin. Lay on top of lined flan tin and cut excess away. (Reserve excess.)
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The Tart;
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Place remaining ingredients into Thermomix bowl (including the leftover marzipan) and mix 8 sec/speed 7. Spread over the marzipan layer.
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Place figs carefully on top, arranged cut side up.
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Bake in preheated fan forced 180ºC oven for 30-35 minutes until just wobbly in centre. Leave in oven to cool. Chill before drizzling with extra honey before serving.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
Tenina has become the premium go to source for all Thermomix expertise and of course fresh and easy recipes that work. Her cooking classes and foodie trips are sold out in literally hours, her cookbooks appear on the Australian best seller lists and her social reach is in the millions. Her Insider Club is the most fun you can have with a Thermomix and you really should join her! She believes chocolate, butter and salt are health foods. Her food positivity mantra is, eat everything, just not all at once!
