To make the filling, beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in the egg, followed by the almonds, flour and extract. Spread evenly in the cooled tart shell. Cut ...

You can make this pastry in a food processor or by hand. Cream together the butter, sugar and salt and then rub or pulse in the flour and egg yolks. When this mixture has come together, looking like ...

If you love pears, you surely haven't missed one of the most classic recipes in French pastry: the Bourdaloue tart! The addition of pears will allow you to finish your meal on a note that is both ...

Note: On the opening night of Alice Water’s Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse, pastry chef Lindsey Shere served almond tart. Twenty-five years later, just before the restaurant’s silver anniversary, we ...

This plum almond tart recipe is a variation on a frangipane - a French almond-based filling that is topped with fruit and baked in a tart shell from the Kitchen Vignettes blog.

This fig and almond tart is gorgeous. The frangipane melts into the almondy crust. Fresh figs burst with flavor. The dough is delicate and somewhat difficult to handle, but well worth the effort. It’s ...

Pastry chef Kristen Hall of Bandit Patisserie in Birmingham, AL, swears by fraisage, a classic French technique she uses to create the flaky crust of this rich chocolate-almond pear tart. Fraisage ...

The bright and refreshing colors and flavors of citrus are exploding at grocery stores right now. After all the rich and decadent flavors of the holiday season, this citrus burst comes at the perfect ...