Maple Tart With Toasted Pecans Recipes

MAPLE PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until smooth. Gradually beat flour into creamed mixture. Shape into a disk; wrap in plastic. Refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to handle., Divide dough into 12 portions. Roll each portion into a 5-in. circle; transfer to 12 ungreased 4-in. fluted tart pans with removable bottoms. Trim crust even with edges. Refrigerate 20 minutes. Preheat oven to 375°., Meanwhile, in a large bowl, whisk the first 6 filling ingredients. Pour into tart shells; arrange pecans over tops. Bake 25-30 minutes or until centers are just set (mixture will jiggle). Cool on wire racks. If desired, serve with ice cream. Refrigerate leftovers.

MAPLE PECAN TART

Steps:

• For crust:
• Using electric mixer, beat butter in medium bowl until smooth. Add sugar, egg yolk, and salt; beat until blended. Add flour and beat just until dough begins to clump together. Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk. Roll out dough on lightly floured work surface to 10 1/2-inch round. Transfer to 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Press dough onto bottom and up sides of pan. Pierce dough all over with fork. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate.
• Place crust in freezer 30 minutes before filling and baking.
• For filling:
• Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk eggs and brown sugar in medium bowl until well blended. Whisk in maple syrup, corn syrup, melted butter, and salt. Stir in pecans. Pour filling into unbaked crust. Place tart on rimmed baking sheet.
• Bake tart until filling is slightly puffed and set, about 40 minutes. Transfer to rack and cool. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Tent loosely with foil and let stand at room temperature.
• Cut tart into wedges and serve with whipped cream or ice cream.

MAPLE TART WITH TOASTED PECANS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Roll out the pastry, fit it into a straight-sided tart shell, prick it and line it with a sheet of foil. Weight it with dry beans or pastry weights. Bake about eight minutes, until it looks dry but has not colored. Remove the foil and weights, bake it another 10 minutes and remove from the oven.
• Put the pecan halves on a baking sheet, place in the oven and toast about five minutes. Watch them carefully so they do not burn. Spread the toasted pecan halves over the bottom of the tart. Put the chopped pecans on a baking sheet in the oven and toast for five minutes. Remove from the oven. Reduce oven temperature to 375 degrees.
• Mix the molasses, maple syrup, rum, melted butter and eggs together. Stir in the toasted chopped pecans. Pour this mixture over the pecan halves in the pastry shell.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes, until the filling is fairly firm. Serve cooled to room temperature, with whipped cream.

MINI MAPLE PECAN TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F.
• Place prepared tart shells on cookie sheet.
• In a small bowl, add egg, heavy cream, melted butter, maple syrup, raisins, chopped pecans, salt, and coffee liqueur; stir well.
• Pour mixture into prepared mini tart shells.
• Place one whole pecan in the middle top of each tart.
• Bake at 450°F degrees, on middle oven rack for 10 minutes; turn heat to 350°F degrees and bake a further 7 or 8 minutes.

MAPLE-PEAR TARTE TATIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Roll puff pastry out on a lightly floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness; place in the refrigerator.
• Melt butter in a 9-inch cast iron skillet over medium heat; stir in brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg and cook and stir until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Stir maple syrup into brown sugar mixture; cook, stirring, until mixture begins to bubble. Remove skillet from heat.
• Place one pear half, cut side up, into the center of skillet. Cut remaining pear halves in half again; arrange pear quarters around the center pear, cut sides up.
• Place skillet over medium-low heat; cook pears, basting with syrup mixture, until they begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat.
• Remove puff pastry from refrigerator; place pastry over pears, tucking edges of pastry around pears inside skillet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pastry is puffed and golden, about 20 minutes; allow to cool for 5 minutes. Place a serving plate over skillet; invert to remove tart (skillet will still be hot). Serve warm.

CHOCOLATE-MAPLE PECAN TART

Steps:

• Crust: Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine butter and granulated sugar in a medium bowl. Stir in yolks, then flour and salt until mixture resembles coarse meal and holds together when pinched. Fold in chocolate. Press evenly into bottom and up sides of a 13-by-4-inch fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. Refrigerate until firm, about 20 minutes.
• Bake crust until golden and set, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Increase oven heat to 350 degrees.
• Filling: Whisk together maple sugar, flour, and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk in eggs and whites, butter, and corn syrup until smooth. Place crust on a parchment-lined rimmed baking sheet. Scatter pecans evenly onto crust. Slowly pour in filling. Bake tart until puffed slightly and set, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool completely on a wire rack. Remove from pan; serve.

MAPLE-PECAN FRENCH TOAST BAKE

Steps:

• Mix milk, half-and-half, eggs, maple syrup, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg together in a large bowl until well combined.
• Layer bread slices in a greased 9x13-inch baking dish. Pour egg mixture over the bread slices. Cover and refrigerate, 8 hours to overnight.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Remove French toast from the refrigerator.
• Mix brown sugar, pecans, butter, and maple syrup together; spread topping evenly over the French toast.
• Bake, uncovered, in the preheated oven until puffed and golden brown, about 40 minutes.