Best Pastry Cream For Grape Tart Recipes

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GRAPE TART



Grape Tart image

There are many varieties of grapes to choose from when making this elegant dessert. Create a pattern with the colors. We made alternating circles of seedless red and green.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes     Pie & Tarts Recipes

Time 3h20m

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1/2 cup rolled oats
Pastry Cream for Grape Tart
3 to 3 1/2 cups seedless red and green grapes
Confectioners' sugar

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
  • In a food processor, pulse flour, sugar, and salt. Add butter; pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add 2 tablespoons ice water; process until mixture just comes together when squeezed (add more water if necessary). Add oats; pulse to combine.
  • Press dough onto bottom and 1 inch up sides of a 9-inch springform pan. Bake until golden, about 25 minutes. Remove sides of pan; cool crust.
  • Whisk cooled pastry cream until smooth. Spread evenly in crust; arrange grapes on top; press in.
  • Chill at least 2 hours and up to 1 day. Just before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar.

PASTRY CREAM FOR GRAPE TART



Pastry Cream for Grape Tart image

Use this pastry cream to make our Grape Tart.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes

Number Of Ingredients 6

6 large egg yolks
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
2 cups whole milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Steps:

  • In a medium bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar until thick and light; beat in flour and cornstarch.
  • In a saucepan, bring milk just to a boil; whisking constantly, gradually add milk to egg mixture.
  • Return mixture to saucepan. Bring to a boil, whisking constantly to prevent scorching, until mixture is thick and pulling away from sides of pan, 4 to 5 minutes. Stir in vanilla.
  • Using a rubber spatula, press mixture through a sieve into a bowl. Cover surface directly with plastic wrap, and cool to room temperature in refrigerator.

GRAPE TART



Grape Tart image

Categories     Fruit     Dessert     Bake     Fall     Grape     Jam or Jelly     Gourmet     Vegetarian     Pescatarian     Peanut Free     Tree Nut Free     Soy Free     Kosher

Yield Serves 6

Number Of Ingredients 11

For pastry cream:
3 large egg yolks
1/4 to 1/3 cup sugar, depending on sweetness of grapes
2 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup whole milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 sheet frozen puff pastry (1/2 pound), thawed
2 teaspoons sugar
4 cups red and green grapes
2 tablespoons red-currant jelly

Steps:

  • Make pastry cream:
  • Whisk together yolks and 1/2 of sugar, then whisk in flour and a pinch salt. Stir together milk and remaining sugar in a heavy saucepan and bring just to a boil over moderate heat. Whisk 1/2 of hot milk into yolks to temper and whisk yolks into milk remaining in pan. Bring custard to a boil over moderate heat and boil, whisking constantly, until very thick. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla and butter until incorporated. Chill hot pastry cream in a bowl, its surface covered with a buttered round of wax paper, until cold, about 1 hour.
  • Make tart:
  • Preheat oven to 425°F while pastry cream chills.
  • Open puff pastry sheet on a lightly floured surface and roll out to a 14- by 12-inch rectangle. Quarter pastry to form 4 rectangles. Brush 1/3 inch of edges lightly with water and fold in borders. Brush off excess flour and press borders with back of a fork to seal. Brush borders lightly with water and sprinkle with sugar. Prick insides of shells all over with fork. Bake on a large baking sheet in middle of oven until crust is golden brown, 10 to 15 minutes, and transfer to a rack. Gently flatten puff pastry inside border to deflate, and cool completely.
  • Halve and seed grapes if necessary. Melt jelly, stirring, and toss with grapes in a bowl.
  • Spread pastry cream in shells with a spatula and top with grapes.

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