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Cranberry Upside-Down Tart with Vanilla Bean Crème Anglaise
   
Recipe Categories: Pies and Pastries   |   Cooking Club
Average Rating: (2 votes)
Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 8 Servings
Courtesy of Cooking Club of America
This homey dessert is the perfect ending for any autumn dinner. For the best vanilla flavor, look for vanilla beans that are moist and supple, not dry and brittle. Remove the seeds by scraping the vanilla bean. Mashing the seeds with the sugar helps to easily disperse the seeds in the sauce.
 
Ingredients
  Tart  
  4  cups fresh or frozen cranberries  
  1  cup diced peeled Golden Delicious apple (1 large)  
  1 3/4  cups sugar plus 1 tbsp  
  1/4  cup all-purpose flour  
  2 1/2  tsp cinnamon  
  1  sheet frozen puff pastry (from 17.3 oz package), thawed  
  Creme Anglaise  
  1  each vanilla bean, halved lengthwise  
  4  tbsp sugar  
  1/2  cup whipping cream  
  1/2  cup whole milk  
  3  med egg yolks, room temperature  
 
Instructions
 
  1. Heat oven to 400°F. In large bowl, stir together cranberries, apple, 1 3/4 cups of the sugar, flour and 2 teaspoons of the cinnamon. Place in 9x1 1/2-inch round baking pan. Place puff pastry over berry mixture; trim puff pastry even with edge of pan.

 
  2. In small bowl, stir together remaining 1 tablespoon sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon; sprinkle over pastry. Bake 35 to 45 minutes or until golden brown and fruit is tender. (Check after 25 minutes. If browning too quickly, cover with foil.)

 
  3. Meanwhile, with small knife, scrape each vanilla bean half to remove seeds. With seeds on cutting board, sprinkle seeds with 2 tablespoons of the sugar. With side of knife, work vanilla bean seeds and sugar together to combine. (Sugar helps separate seeds so they will disperse in sauce easier.) Place vanilla seeds and sugar along with vanilla pod in large saucepan. Add cream and milk. Cook over medium heat until small bubbles appear around outside edge of saucepan.

 
  4. Immediately pour through strainer into medium bowl. Cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Cover; store in refrigerator. Serve warm or at room temperature.

 
  PER SERVING: 505 calories, 22 g total fat (9 g saturated fat), 4 g protein, 75.5 g carbohydrate, 105 mg cholesterol, 90 mg sodium, 3 g fiber

 
  COPYRIGHT: Cooking Pleasures Magazine, North American Membership Group Inc. All rights reserved.

 
  This recipe was provided courtesy of the Cooking Club of America, North America's largest cooking organization. Click Here - For a FREE Trial Membership in the Club, and a free copy of the Members-Only magazine, Cooking Pleasures.

 
   


 



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