Plum Tart

I love this time of year because there are so many fruits available and they look nice and fresh, and also cheap!

So, I bought quite a few plums from a market, and as they were getting softer and softer each day, I decided to make a Plum Tart with them. I used the classic sweet pastry and almond cheese cream as a filling.

I haven't made tart for a little while but making a tart case reminded me of how much I like making tart...
It is very therapeutic;)

The smooth filling, sweet plums and the crusty pastry is nice as is but even better when you add a scoop or two of ice cream on the side. ;D

More tarts?
• Lemon Meringue Tart
• Nut About Nut Tart
• Chestnut Tart
• Pumpkin Tart
• Apple Almond Cheese Tartlet

Plum cupcake

I love seeing colourful winter veges and fruits sitting neatly at the market stall on a beautiful sunny day like today:) There are lots of plums around now, and we got so many of them on the other day. They were still a bit sour after a week, so I decided to turn them into plum cupcakes;)

First of all, I made plum compote. When I cut the plums into chunky pieces, I thought..."humm, it's a bit more than I thought...". But when they were being cooked, an amazing amount of water came out and eventually they sized down to 1/3.

Plum and almond got on really well, so I mixed almond powder with flour.

Smelling beautiful, I could already tell those cakes were going to be tasty when they were still in the oven.

Here they are out of the oven..., ooh..., they're really really lovey:) The taste of slightly sour but sweet plum, and the nutty flavour and texture of almond...

Honestly..., really good.