Brown Butter Tart with Fresh Fruit

This beauty was inspired by a dessert served at a local restaurant I used to work at called Opal Restaurant & Bar. I highly recommend it if you’ve never been; the service is impeccable and their menu is full of gems like this Brown Butter Tart with Fresh Fruit! It was by far my favorite item to splurge on after a long shift, so I knew I wanted to offer something similar on my own menu one day.

I recently delivered this tart to some regular clients to serve after an intimate dinner party and it was a massive hit! The soft, cookie-like tart has a wonderful nutty flavor due to the browned butter in the filling, and the shiny rainbow of glazed fruit on top makes for a show-stopping presentation. Although this dessert is absolutely divine on its own, try pairing it with a base of vanilla bean creme anglaise on the plate for an even bigger indulgence!

adapted from Opal Restaurant & Bar
Ingredients
for the crust:
7 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
1/3 cup sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon flour
Pinch of salt

for the filling:
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
Pinch of salt
1/4 cup flour
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 stick unsalted butter, diced

for the glazed fruit topping:
assorted fresh fruit of your choice (I chose strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, kiwi, and mandarin oranges)
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup water
2 tbsp. cornstarch
2 tbsp. corn syrup

Instructions 
1. Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 375 degrees. Using a rubber spatula mix melted butter, sugar and vanilla in medium bowl. Add flour and salt and stir until incorporated. Transfer dough to 9-inch-diameter tart pan with removable bottom. Using fingertips or a flat-bottomed cup, press dough evenly onto sides and bottom of pan. Bake crust until golden, about 18 minutes (crust will puff slightly while baking). Transfer crust to rack and cool in pan. Maintain oven temperature.
2. Whisk sugar, eggs, and salt in medium bowl to blend. Add flour and vanilla and whisk until smooth. Cook butter in heavy small saucepan over medium heat until deep nutty brown (do not burn), stirring often. Immediately pour browned butter into a glass measuring cup. Gradually whisk browned butter into the sugar-egg mixture and whisk until well blended.
3. Carefully pour browned butter mixture into cooled crust. Place tart on rimmed baking sheet and bake until filling is puffed and golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 40 minutes. Cool tart completely in the pan on a cooling rack, then remove tart from pan and place on a platter.
4. Neatly arrange fruit on top of tart. To make glaze, Bring sugar to a boil with 1/2 of the water. Dissolve cornstarch in 1/2 water or juice and add to the sugar mixture. Cook, stirring until mixture thickens and clears. Stir in corn syrup. Bring to a boil then remove from heat. Cool completely before brushing over fruit with a pastry brush.
5. Cut into wedges and serve.

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Comments

  1. Alex and Gina of SB

    Well, we were the lucky recipients of this amazingly delicious tart and it was deserving the rave reviews from us and our dinner guests.

    We feel very fortunate to have found Denisse and have been ordering her weekly dinners for several months now. We find the service and the food prepared by her to frequently be very creative and always very good. Highly recommended.

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