Walnut Tart
Ingredients
- Crust ⓘ
- 1 1/2 cups flour, plus ⓘ
- 3 tablespoons flour ⓘ
- 6 tablespoons powdered sugar ⓘ
- 7 tablespoons cold butter, cut into bits ⓘ
- 2 egg yolks ⓘ
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Filling
- 1 cup whipping cream, plus ⓘ
- 1 1/2 tablespoons whipping cream ⓘ
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar ⓘ
- 3/4 cup walnuts (ground very fine with the powdered sugar) ⓘ
Instructions
- For pastry: Combine flour and sugar in large bowl; cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse meal.
- Blend in yolks and vanilla; gather dough into a ball.
- Turn out onto lightly-floured surface.
- Using heel of hand, smear dough a little at a time across surface to blend butter and flour thoroughly.
- Flatten into disk.
- Wrap and refrigerate 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 390F.
- Roll dough out between sheets of wax paper to thickness of 1/8 inch.
- Fit into 11 inch tart pan and trim edges.
- Pierce shell all over with fork.
- Line with foil and fill with pie weights or dry beans.
- Bake until pastry is set, about 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350F.
- Remove pie weights and foil.
- Bake until crust is golden-brown, about 10 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 300F.
- Blend all filling ingredients.
- Pour into crust.
- Bake until filling is set and looks dry, about 35 minutes.
- Cool and decorate with walnut halves.
- This is sublime served warm with a scoop of walnut ice cream melting over top.
Nutrition & Diet Analysis (per serving)
1215
kcal
61% DV
Protein
Fat
Carbs
* % Daily Values based on a 2,000 calorie diet (FDA 2020).