Pear Tarte Tatin with Shortbread Crust

Name: Pear Tarte Tatin with Shortbread Crust
Yield: serves: 6 to 8
Ingredients: 8 tablespoons (1 stick) unsalted butter, cold, cut into pea-size pieces; 3/4 cup all-purpose flour, plus more as needed; 1/4 cup sugar; Pinch of kosher salt; Zest of 1 lemon; 1 large egg yolk; 3/4 cup sugar; Juice of 1/2 lemon; 1 cinnamon stick; 1 pint heavy cream; 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, cut into pats; 12 seckel pears, peeled, cored, and halved

December 9, 2011

This is the most amazing upside-down cake you’ll ever make. And if you don’t already know how, you’ll learn to make caramel—which used to scare me to death. I always worried about burning it. But making caramel does not have to be an intimidating process—you just have to pay attention. You also want to remember that this is a flipper situation; you need to make the bottom of your tart look pretty because it’s going to end up as the top.

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