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How to Make a Delicious Pear Custard Tart
Ingredients
  • subheading: For the tart you'll need to make two components; the tart shell and the filling. You can use a store-bought tart shell if you'd like but I love homemade!:
  • For the tart shell, I like to use a sweet shortcrust pastry shell- the buttery, crisp shell pairs beautifully with the smooth pears and custard.
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  • Heavy Whipping Cream. The cream helps bind the crust together.
  • Egg Yolk. This egg yolk adds fat, richness, and helps bind the crust.
  • Pure Vanilla Extract. The vanilla gives a great depth of flavor to the pastry.
  • All-Purpose Flour. Make sure you measure your flour properly, too much or too little can drastically alter the tart. I highly suggest weighing the flour.
  • Confectioners Sugar. Using powdered sugar helps create a smooth tart shell.
  • Salt. Salt is that little something extra you need.
  • Butter. You need cold butter straight out of the fridge. You'll cut a stick of butter into 12 chunks
  • subheading: And for the gorgeous pear custard filling you'll need:
  • Large Pears. I like to use D'anjou pears for baking. You can also use Bosc pears. You can learn more about the different types of pears on USA Pears Website. The pears need to be peeled, cored, and thin-medium sliced.
  • Granulated Sugar. This will sweeten the custard.
  • Large Eggs. The eggs are what help build the structure of the custard.
  • Heavy Whipping Cream. The heavy cream gives you that lush, creamy, texture!
  • Pure Vanilla Extract. This gives the custard a beautiful flavor.
  • Almond Extract. I love almonds and pears together, such a great flavor combo.
  • Salt. Salt not only balances out the sweetness but brings out the flavor of all of the other ingredients.
  • All-Purpose Flour. This helps thicken the custard as well as stabilize the eggs while cooking to prevent scrambling.
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