1 Review of Tarte Aux Abricots - Glazed French Apricot Tart With Almonds

From: The Flying Chef

On Aug 16, 2009

Utterly Fabulous!!!! I made this today and I have only allowed us to share one piece between the 3 of us. I have my family coming down tomorrow and I want it for then.. I will no doubt have to come back and update this review then as I know they will love this. I am also having to stop my son and hubby taking sneaky little slithers from the fridge until then.. lol.. No seriously this is well worth the effort to make it turns out sensational and for me far better than any tart I have bought from the bakers. This is the absolute perfect combination of ingredients FT and this one has gone straight into my favourites. I served ours with fresh whipped cream today, but I have bought some vanilla bean ice cream to serve with it, along with the whipped cream tomorrow. Totally indulgent but totally delicious. This is a winner with a big thumbs up. Update: My whole family had this today with fresh whipped cream and vanilla bean ice cream. Every single one of them said wow. Not to boast but we really are the tart family in the sense that we live in Switzerland so like FT we get some really amazing tarts from our local village bakeries. There were 7 more people that tried this today and they all said how superb it was. The only criticism my mum had was that the apricot glaze over the top would have been better if I had used my mums homemade apricot jam with lavender. I have to agree that would have added a whole different taste to it. But then I am blessed to have a mum that makes some pretty mean preserves. But all my family could not stop going on about the taste of the tart in general and also the fact that using the fresh apricots that were not over ripe, just added to the tart flavour and for us just pushed it over the top. I have gone on now I know, but for those who are put off by all the steps and the labour intensive steps from the pastry to the apricots to the baking of the tart itself. All I can say is that if you love apricots and this kind of thing it will in no way disappoint, FT has come up with the absolute perfect tart recipe.