Upside-Down Caramelized Apricot Tart

Name: Upside-Down Caramelized Apricot Tart
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 9 fresh apricots; 1 sheet frozen puff pastry (half of 17.3-ounce package), thawed; 118 milliliters sugar; 3 Tbsps unsalted butter; 2 Tbsps water; 2 Tbsps whipping cream

Upside-Down Caramelized Apricot Tart is a vegetarian dessert. This recipe makes 8 servings with 287 calories, 3g of protein, and 17g of fat each. This recipe covers 5% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have apricots, whipping cream, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. 1 person found this recipe to be yummy and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 425°F.

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Oven

Combine 1/2 cup sugar if using canned apricots (or 3/4 cup sugar if using fresh apricots) and 2 tablespoons water in heavy small saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and boil without stirring until syrup is deep amber, occasionally brushing down sides of pan with pastry brush dipped into water and swirling pan, about 8 minutes.

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Apricot

Sugar

Syrup

Water

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Pastry Brush

Sauce Pan

Frying Pan

Add butter and cream (mixture will bubble vigorously). Stir over low heat until any caramel bits are dissolved. Immediately pour caramel into nonstick 10-inch-diameter ovenproof skillet; swirl to cover bottom of skillet. Carefully place apricot halves, rounded side down, tightly together atop caramel.

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Caramel Bits

Apricot

Caramel

Butter

Cream

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Frying Pan

Roll out puff pastry sheet on lightly floured surface to 12 1/2-inch square. Using 12-inch tart pan bottom or platter as guide, cut pastry into 12-inch round.

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Puff Pastry Sheets

Roll

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Tart Form

Place puff pastry round atop apricots in skillet. Gently press down pastry around apricots at edge of skillet.

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Puff Pastry Sheets

Apricot

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Frying Pan

Bake tart until pastry is puffed and deep golden, about 25 minutes.

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Oven

Remove from oven; cool 1 minute.

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Oven

Cut around edge of pastry to loosen.

Place large rimmed platter atop skillet. Using oven mitts as aid, hold skillet and platter tightly together and invert, allowing tart and syrup to fall onto platter. Carefully lift off skillet. Rearrange any apricots that may have become dislodged.

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Apricot

Syrup

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Oven Mitt