Orange Tart with Vanilla Mascarpone

I love desserts! I love sweets. You know how your eating habits are influenced by your family – well, I was influenced by my mum heavily in that sense that she loves to have something sweet after every proper meal, i.e. lunch and dinner, and I am the same. I love to have something sweet every day. I am not a very chocolate person, something that my friends can’t really understand but yeah, I’m not. I am not saying I don’t eat chocolate but it wouldn’t be my first choice. I love creamy desserts and biscuits.

 Cheesecakes and lemon tarts but you can’t really eat them all the time and so I like to refresh the “repertoire” a little bit. I found this recipe in a book that I am currently reading about food and social behaviour but I spiced it up a little bit and also changed the proportion of ingredients and the title ..., so it is my cake in the end. Or actually my boyfriend’s as he was the one baking it! :) Enjoy!

The pastry:

175g plain flour

85g butter

70g sugar

1 egg  (split into yolk and white that you whisk until foamy)

2 tablespoons milk

Pinch of salt

1. To make the pastry, put the flour, diced butter and sugar into a bowl and mix well. Add the egg yolk, milk, pinch of salt and gradually add the whisked egg white as well.

2. Wrap it in a cling film and allow to chill for about 30 minutes in the fridge. 

1. Roll out the pastry on a lightly floured cool work surface into a large 3-5mm thick circle and carefully unroll it across a 23cm tart ring. Use your fingers to press the pastry into the ring so that you achieve a smooth fit.

2. Put the pastry into a 190°C preheated oven and bake for 15 minutes. (Apply the tips suggested at the Quiche with Leeks, Bacon & Rosemary recipe in the past – pricking the pastry with a fork and baking it covered with a baking paper filled with dried beans for the first 10 minutes)

 

The filling:

300g mascarpone

150g sour cream

130g caster sugar

¼ teaspoon vanilla paste (or ½ a vanilla pod or 1 teaspoon vanilla essence)

Pinch of salt

Zest and juice of 2-3 oranges

3 eggs  

1. Mix all the ingredients together and pour the filling over the pre-baked pastry. Reduce the over to 150°C and bake for 45 minutes or until just set.

You can make the tart look more beautiful by decorating it with fresh or candied pieces of orange, grated dark chocolate, vanilla and sugar infused sour cream, and so on and so forth.

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