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Peach and Basil Tarte Tatin

Posted on June 14, 2020 Posted in Tarts .

Peach and Basil Tarte Tatin

Peach and Basil Tarte Tatin

Yes baking with canned peaches instead of fresh in a Tarte Tatin is very odd, some may think sinful, but the challenge ingredient I was given for this bake was canned peaches.

It is quite frustrating when you come up with a recipe idea and have to wait months for the fruit to be in season. So the challenge was to come up with a recipe that would combat seasonality as well as be unique in flavour and of course super tasty.

This recipe needed to produce a bake that gave the illusion of fresh and ripe peaches being used.

I have been thinking of creating a recipe with peaches and basil for a while, so I thought this was a good opportunity for me to do some experimenting.

Why Tarte Tatin? I honestly cannot remember now…maybe because it was so unconventional…

A few trials to get it to the right bake outcome and below is how to make a delicious Peach Tarte Tatin all year around!

Peach and Basil Tarte Tatin

Ingredients:

  • 1 sheet puff pastry
  • 280g drained peaches from a can
  • 80g caster sugar
  • 80g butter
  • 1 tsn vanilla essence
  • ¼ tsn salt
  • 1 tsn lemon juice
  • 1 tsn basil, chopped

Extra:

  • 6 ripped basil leaves
  • Double cream

 

Instructions:

  1. Oil a 25cm cake tin lined with baking paper on the base, allowing for a 1cm border of no paper around the edge.
  2. Pre-heat oven to 190c degrees.
  3. Place butter, sugar, salt, vanilla and lemon juice into a saucepan and stir on low heat until the sugar is dissolved.
  4. Increase temperature to high and allow to boil until a candy thermometer hits 90c degrees.
  5. Pour the caramel into the prepared tin base.
  6. Add the peaches in a spiral pattern ensuring the based is covered with the fanned fruit.
  7. Sprinkle the chopped basil over the peaches evenly.
  8. Cover the peaches with the pastry, tucking in the sides to ensure full coverage and poke a few holes to let the steam out during the bake.
  9. Bake for 30 minutes, allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting onto an oven safe plate, remove the baking paper.
  10. Place the tart under a hot grill for 5 minutes or until golden and bubbly.
  11. Top with the extra ripped basil and a good dollop of cream to serve.
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Lemon, Basil and Olive Oil Cake

Posted on February 5, 2014 Posted in Cakes .

Lemon, Basil and Olive Oil Cake

Photographer: Margaret Paola Minero

Lemon, Basil and Olive Oil Cake

Gosh, if I remove the word ‘cake’ from this Lemon, basil and olive oil title you would swear I am making a pasta sauce!

Don’t let this fool you, this cake produces the most amazing texture that can only be described as more fluffy that a sponge cake but cheesecake like, yep seriously (a friends words not mine)!

Separately lemon and olive oil in cakes is quite common (olive oil thanks to the likes of the carrot cake popularity). However, basil…this is the first time I must say I have come across this ingredient in a cake, therefore of course I had to make it.

Believe it or not this cake is a winner, especially to the everyday taste bud that doesn’t have a sweet tooth obsession as bad as mine (in other words it is sweet but not chocolate caramel layer cake sweet).

We already know these flavors work, why not give it a try!

 

Ingredients:

  • 180ml olive oil
  • 16 basil leaves
  • 4 eggs separated + an extra yolk
  • 170g white sugar
  • Finley grated zest of 1 large lemon
  • 2 tbsn + ½ tsn of lemon juice
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 175g plain flour
  • 1 tsn cream of tarter

Syrup:

  • 10 basil leaves
  • 60g white sugar
  • 4 tsn lemon juice

 

Method:

  1. Place the oil and basil in a pan on the stove on high until the basil starts to sizzle and crisp up. Once you hit this stage take the pan off the heat and leave aside to cool.
  2. Line a 20cm cake tin with baking paper and pre-heat the oven to 180c.
  3. Beat the egg yolks and 1/3 of the sugar until thick and pale.
  4. Add the cold oil, zest, juice and salt and beat to combine.
  5. Gently fold (be very gentle) the flourinto the batter until just combine.
  6. In another bowl beat the egg whites and cream of tarter until peaks start to form. Now add in the remaining sugar and beat until mixture is thick and glossy.
  7. Place a large spoonful of egg whites in to the batter and gently fold to loosen the batter up.
  8. Once lose fold in the remaining egg white mix very very gently.
  9. Spoon the batter into the cake tin and smooth the top.
  10. Bake for 45 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the cake comes out clean.
  11. Cool in the tin for 10 minutes than transfer onto a cooling rack.
  12. Now for the syrup, combine all ingredients into a pan with 80ml water and stir on the stove on medium until the mix is reduced to a nice syrup consistency.
  13. Dust the cake with icing sugar and spoon the syrup over the cake, serve.

 

Notes:

  • I whipped up some thickened cream with 2 tbsn of icing sugar and brought 250g strawberries that were mixed with 2 tsn of icing sugar and 2 tsn lemon juice. I then piped the cream and placed the strawberries on top of the cake before the syrup was spooned on the cake to decorate. Lastly I placed a few basil sprigs in the center for the look.
  • The reason I say very very gently is because there is no self-raising agent in this cake. The rise of the cake comes from the egg white and cream of tarter combo you have beaten, so if you are not gentle enough the cake will loose its rise (old school raising styles going on here)!

 

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Photographer: Margaret Paola Minero

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