Fast Desserts Recipes - Toffee Nut Tart Dessert Recipe

  
 

Fast Desserts Recipes - Toffee Nut Tart

Ingredients

  • 150 g mixed nuts (e.g. almonds, cashew nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts)

  • 1/3 cup (90 g) caster

  • sugar

  • 2 tablespoons cream 250 g mascarpone

  • 2 tablespoons soft

  •   brown sugar

  • 1 teaspoon vanilla

  •   essence

  • 1/2 cup (125 ml) cream,

  •   extra

  •                18 cm ready-made

  •   cooked shortcrust

  •   pastry (Ian

Method:

  1. Preheat the oven to moderate 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). Spread out the nuts on a baking tray and roast for 5 minutes, or until lightly golden. Cool.

  2. To make the toffee sauce, sprinkle the sugar in an even layer over the base of a saucepan and put over low heat. Melt the sugar slowly, tipping the pan from side to side so that it melts evenly-keep the sugar moving or it might start to colour on one side before the other side has melted. When it starts to. colour, keep swirling until the toffee is an even colour and then remove from the heat. Plunge the base of the saucepan into cold water.

  3. Stir in the cream, being careful as it will spit a little. Stir until smooth. Cool slightly.

  4. Using electric beaters, beat the mascarpone, brown sugar, vanilla and extra cream until mixed together, being careful not to overmix or it will curdle. Evenly spoon into the flan base and arrange the nuts over the top. Drizzle the toffee sauce over the tart in a zigzag pattern. Chill until ready to eat.