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Honey pear tarte Tatin

Serves 6
Cooking Time Prep time 5 mins, cook 25 mins
150 gm   honey
2½   beurre bosc pears, quartered
375 gm   sheet of butter puff pastry
Honey cream
200 gm   double cream
To taste:   honey
1   vanilla bean, scraped seeds only


1 Preheat oven to 200C. Cook honey in an 18cm-diameter cake pan over medium-high heat for five minutes or until dark caramel in colour, remove from heat and let bubbles subside. Arrange pears over honey caramel, overlapping slightly, and stand until caramel cools.
2 Meanwhile, for honey cream, combine ingredients in a bowl, whisk until smooth and set aside.
3 Using a plate slightly larger than the cake pan as a template, cut a round of pastry. Place over pears, tucking in edges, then bake for 20 minutes or until pastry rises and is dark golden in colour. Stand for 5 minutes, then place a large serving plate over cake pan and carefully invert onto plate (be very careful as the caramel will be hot).


RECIPE Emma Knowles

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