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Summer Tart

Summer  Fruit Tart

Summer Tart has a base of delicious shortcrust pastry and strawberry jam, decorated with any fruit you like.

This fresh and colourful tart is the ideal afternoon snack or the dessert at the end of a meal.

Let your imagination be your guide in decorating the Summer Tart.

You can use fresh fruit, canned fruit or a mix of the two.

Banana, kiwi, grapes, peach, mandarin are just one of many combinations to create an ever-changing decoration.

If you’re looking for a fresh, eye-catching dessert to share with your guests, this is the recipe to impress.

So, are you ready to delight your palate and your eyes with this fresh and Instagram-ready dessert?

Summer Tart

Difficulty: Medium
Servings

8

servings
Prep time*

50

minutes
Baking time

35

minutes
Total time

1

hour 

25

minutes

* includes the time of making and subsequent decoration.

Ingredients

  • Shortcrust
  • 1 eggs and 1 yolk

  • 100 g of sugar

  • 80 g of sunflower oil

  • 1 lemon 

  • 300 g of all purpose flour

  • 1 pinch of salt

  • 1 tsp of rising powder

  • Filling
  • 5-6 tbsp of strawberry jam

  • mandarin segments in juice

  • peach slices in juice

  • banana

  • kiwi

  • seedless red grapes

  • Gelatine
  • 150 ml of water

  • 50 g of granulated sugar

  • 1 tsp of cornflour

  • 2-3 tbsp of lemon juice

Directions

  • In a large bowl, combine sugar, a pinch of salt, oil, the grated zest of a lemon, the whole egg and the yolk.
  • Stir with a fork, then gradually add the flour and baking powder until a dough begins to form.
  • Move to a work surface and add the remaining flour until the dough is elastic and no longer sticks to your hands.
  • Roll it out on a sheet of baking paper to a thickness of about 4-5 mm.
  • Roll out the shortcrust pastry into a 24 cm tart mould. 
  • Pour 5-6 tablespoons of strawberry jam and spread it evenly over the base of the tart.
  • Bake in a ventilated oven preheated to 170°C for 35-40 minutes until golden brown.
  • While it cools down to room temperature, let’s start preparing the fruits to cover and decorate the tart. Let your imagination be your guide.
  • You can use fresh fruit, canned fruit or a mix of the two. On this occasion I used a fresh banana, kiwi and seedless red grapes with the addition of peach slices and mandarin segments in juice.
  • In order to complete the tart decoration and give it a polished look, let’s prepare the gelatine.
  • Pour 100 ml of water and 50 g of granulated sugar into a saucepan.
  • Put it on the stove to let the sugar dissolve.
  • In a glass, mix 50 ml of water with a teaspoon of cornflour.
  • As soon as the sugar-water mixture comes to boil, add the water and cornflour mixture.
  • Add the lemon juice, stir well and bring to the boil.
  • Turn off the heat after one minute from boiling point and let it cool down
  • When the gelatine is barely warm, it is ready to be brushed over the fruits of this Summer Tart.

Peach Cake

Peach Cake

Let yourself be tempted by the Peach Cake, a soft, delicately flavoured dessert, ideal for breakfast or the afternoon snack.

Often there is very little time to prepare it, so there is a need for quick, tasty and light cake.

The one I propose today is without butter, with little sugar and peaches in syrup.

This is an easy recipe that even the most inexperienced will be able to prepare with their eyes shut.

It only takes a few minutes to put it in the oven: you will get a soft cake, moist to the right point, which will give you the sweetest awakening.

In addition, you can enrich the dough of this Peach Cake with chocolate chips, crumbled macaroons, chopped hazelnuts or whatever you like, using your imagination.

This simple fruit cake that will pleasantly surprise your guests.

Find out how to prepare it!

Peach Cake

Difficulty: Easy
Servings

8

servings
Prep time

20

minutes
Baking time

45

minutes
Total time

1

hour 

5

minutes

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs

  • 160 g of sugar

  • 200 g of self-raising flour

  • 1 tin of peaches in syrup or 4 fresh peaches

Directions

  • First of all, break 4 eggs into a bowl.
  • Pour 160 g of sugar and start mixing with a whisk or the electric hand mixer for about 6-7 minutes. 
  • Then, add the sifted self-raising flour a little at a time and keep mixing. 
  • Once the mixture is ready, add the diced peaches previously drained of their juice.
  • Grease a mold of 20 cm with butter and sprinkle some flour. 
  • Lastly, pour the mixture into the mold.
  • Bake in a ventilated oven, preheated to 180°C for about 45-50 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
  • Leave the cake in the oven off with the door ajar for 10 minutes.
  • Once the cake is at room temperature, sprinkle it with icing sugar.