My friend Diane Mrak’s unique dessert tart is made with fresh pasta. Try it, you’ll like it.
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Ingredients
CRUST
1/2 cup
butter
1/3 cup
sugar
1/4 teaspoon
vanilla
1 cup
King Arthur™ Unbleached, All-Purpose Flour
FILLING
4
ounces dried pasta, cooked and drained (leftover pasta is fine)
1 cup
milk (for richer filling, use Half & Half)
6 tablespoons
melted butter or margarine
2
large eggs
1/2 cup
sugar
2
medium apples, grated
1/2 teaspoon
almond flavoring
1/2 cup
dried sour cherries (substitution of dried cranberries or raisins is fine)
1/2 cup plus ¼ cup
sliced almonds
Cinnamon sugar (optional)
1/2 cup
fresh raspberries, blueberries or peaches (optional)
INGREDIENTS
Directions
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
Cream butter, sugar and vanilla with mixer until smooth. Add flour and mix by hand until blended.
Press dough along the bottom and up the sides of a 10 1/2-inch fluted tart pan with removable bottom.
You may make this tart with or without a crust. If not using a crust, bake your tart in a solid bottom tart dish or a pie dish.
Combine milk, butter, sugar and eggs. Grate apples into mixture. Add almond flavoring, dried sour cherries and 1/2 cup almonds. (If using optional fresh fruit, add it here.) Add the cooked pasta and mix well.
Pour into the prepared tart crust or the solid tart pan.
If you wish, sprinkle the top with about 2 teaspoons of cinnamon sugar.
Bake for 1 hour or until a knife comes out clean. Serve warm or cold.
Decorate with whipped cream and fresh fruit, if desired.
For a special occasion, make pasta flowers to decorate the top of the tart.
If you wish to use a 9-inch tart pan, reduce pasta to 3 ounces of dried pasta, milk to 3/4 cup, sugar to 1/3 cup and butter to 5 1/2 tablespoons.
For Diabetics or low sugar diets, substitute another apple for all sugar or add only 1/4 cup.
Dear Mary Ann,
My aunt and I are devoted fans. Within the past four months, she developed a gluten intolerance. Do you have any tips for gluten-free cooking? It has been a challenge — first to find gluten-free products and then to figure out how to cook and bake to achieve results that taste “familiar”! If you can provide recipes or techniques that we can use, I’d be very grateful.
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Cheryle
Dear Mary Ann,
My aunt and I are devoted fans. Within the past four months, she developed a gluten intolerance. Do you have any tips for gluten-free cooking? It has been a challenge — first to find gluten-free products and then to figure out how to cook and bake to achieve results that taste “familiar”! If you can provide recipes or techniques that we can use, I’d be very grateful.