A really quick and easy way of turning some of your Share Fresh selected fruit into a delicious and tempting dessert – or even breakfast pastries! You can either make one big tart or simply cut up the pastry sheet into squares or rounds to make individual ones!
INGREDIENTS
- 1 sheet ready-rolled puff pastry
- Fruit of your choice – any combination of apple, mango, banana and kiwi works well
- 50g butter or margarine
- 40g icing sugar
- 60ml maple syrup
METHOD
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Preheat the oven to 220C (Gas 8)
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Grease a shallow baking sheet with a little butter or oil and dust with flour (or, if you prefer, cut a sheet of non-stick baking parchment to exactly fit the tray).
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Unroll the pastry. For individual tarts, cut into squares, rounds or whatever shapes you like. For one big tart, simply trim any dry edges of the pastry with a sharp knife
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Lay the pastry onto the baking sheet and prick holes at 2cm intervals all the way over it (this stops it rising in the wrong places!)
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Peel the fruit that you’re using (not necessary for apples), slice thinly, and arrange on top of the pastry. You need enough fruit to cover the pastry in a single layer, leaving a 1cm margin all around the edges.
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Melt the butter or margarine and brush all over the fruit and the edges of the pastry
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Dust the icing sugar all over the fruit and pastry (it’s going to melt and caramelise to a clear coating in the oven)
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Place the baking sheet in the oven and cook for 15 minutes
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Remove the sheet, and drizzle the maple syrup over the fruit (you may need to warm the syrup first to make it easier to drizzle).
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Return the sheet to the oven for just another 5 minutes, by which time the pastry should be golden and the caramel on the fruit glistening.
