French Frdays with Dorie

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Crunchy and Custardy Peach Tart


I was actually ahead of the game this week having made this tart a couple of weeks ago. I found the tart shell to be as delicious this time as it was the first time I made it. I could have easily eaten nothing but the shell and been pretty happy.


But, I do love peaches, so adding them to the mix made me very happy. I have gotten peaches a couple of times in the share from my fruit CSA so I had them handy. I felt they were a bit smaller than Dorrie suggested so I used an extra one in the tart. Nevertheless, I still felt their appearance was a bit lacking. They tasted fabulous, but I felt the proportion of custard to peach was too high.


It wasn't that the custard wasn't tasty. As custards go, this one is quite nice. It is not overly eggy and it certainly came together easily. I just prefer more fruit to the custard.


I spread my struesel over the entire top of the tart and have seen in the photos of several others that they limited the spreading to the custard area. That made for a very attractive tart. My custard had sort of taken over the entire pan, so that wasn't a viable option for me, but it is definitely something I am going to try and emulate the next time around.


Rachel of sweet tarte made this very excellent selection for the group - Brava!

2 comments:

Flourchild said...

In love a good peach tart, yours looks so tasty! I love fall because I bake more!

homework help said...

Need to try it!! Sure it's so delicious, and I love peaches BTW. So I'm sure I'll like it