Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Tarts!



Mmmmm tarts.  The ones on the left are filled with raspberry jam, lemon curd and topped with fresh raspberries.  The one's on the right are filled with chocolate mousse and topped with creme chantilly (which is a fancy word for whipped cream) and fresh strawberries.  These were delish!  The hardest part was baking the crust.  For these tarts, the crusts needed to be baked before being filled so we put the dough in the tart pans and put baking beans on top of them (these are different than baked beans lol) to weigh down the middle so it wouldn't puff up during the baking process.  Well let's just say that these are not the first batch we did because those did not turn out.  They puffed up so much in the middle, there was no room left for filling!  (They still tasted wonderful though!) All in all, it was a good learning experience.

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