French Pear Tart with Nuts

A rich, delectable dessert made with a cake mix and additional ingredients from your pantry to create an unforgettable melt in your mouth pound cake that will remind you of a pina colada because it is flavored with pineapple, has a rum glaze that partially soaks into the cake and glazes the top and sides, and is topped with toasted coconut!

Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 25 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Servings: 8
Yield: 8 servings

Ingredients

  1. 1 (17.25 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
  2. 1 (8 ounce) container creme fraiche
  3. 1 egg
  4. ¼ cup white sugar
  5. ¾ cup mixed nuts
  6. 3 pears – peeled, cored and sliced

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  2. Unroll the puff pastry sheet and line a tart pan with it. Cut off any overhanging pastry. Prick pastry several times with a fork.
  3. Stir together creme fraiche, egg, and sugar in a bowl until smooth. Fold in nut mix.
  4. Arrange pear slices on puff pastry and cover with creme fraiche mixture.
  5. Bake tart in the preheated oven until the filling is lightly colored and pastry has puffed up and browned, about 25 minutes.

Nutrition Facts

Calories 597 kcal
Carbohydrate 48 g
Cholesterol 63 mg
Dietary Fiber 4 g
Protein 9 g
Saturated Fat 14 g
Sodium 276 mg
Sugars 15 g
Fat 43 g
Unsaturated Fat 0 g

 

Leave a Comment