Pecangipane Pear and Cranberry Tart

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This is simply a fancy tart that takes vantage of fall’s fruits and nuts, looks beauteous and freezes exceptionally well. The creamy furniture beneath the effect is made similar the almond filling known arsenic frangipane; due to the fact that Cathy Barrow uses pecans instead, she's called it "pecangipane." To freeze, seal it successful respective layers of integrative wrap, due to the fact that the nuts readily sorb different flavors.

Select pears escaped of bruises and of akin size that are either perfectly ripe oregon somewhat underripe.

You'll request a 10-inch tart cookware with a removable bottom.

The filling (pecangipane) tin beryllium good wrapped successful respective layers of integrative wrapper and frozen for up to respective weeks successful advance. Defrost it wholly earlier assembling the tart. The sweet-crust dough needs to beryllium refrigerated for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 2 days. The dough, erstwhile it's shaped into the tart pan, needs to beryllium refrigerated for 1 hour. The assembled, unbaked tart needs to beryllium frozen for astatine slightest 8 hours and up to 1 month. It's champion to devour the tart the aforesaid time it was baked.

Ingredients

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Servings: 12-14 (makes 1 10-inch tart)

For the filling

  • 3 cups pecan halves
  • 1 cupful granulated sugar
  • 1/4 cupful acheronian honey
  • 1/2 cupful water
  • 1/4 cupful bourbon

For the crust

  • 3/4 cupful confectioners' sugar
  • 16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 2 ample eggs
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1/4 spoon kosher salt

For assembly

  • 4 to 6 ripe Bosc pears (see headnote)
  • 1 lemon
  • 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
  • 3/4 cupful granulated sugar
  • 1 ample egg
  • 1 1/2 cups caller oregon frozen cranberries
  • 1/4 cupful crystallized ginger, chopped into tiny dice

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 14)

  • Calories

    660

  • Fat

    33 g

  • Saturated Fat

    12 g

  • Carbohydrates

    85 g

  • Sodium

    40 mg

  • Cholesterol

    85 mg

  • Protein

    8 g

  • Fiber

    6 g

  • Sugar

    48 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cathy Barrow, the writer of “Mrs. Wheelbarrow’s Practical Pantry: Recipes and Techniques for Year-Round Preserving” (W.W. Norton, 2014). Correction: An earlier mentation of this look called for 8 pears; 4 to 6 pears is each that's required.

Tested by Cathy Barrow.

Published October 6, 2015

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Updated March 15, 2026

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