Plum And Marzipan Tart Tatin

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 35 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 1 ounce butter
• 1 ounce golden light brown sugar
• 28 ounces firm plums, not too ripe,halved and stoned
• 4 ounces golden marzipan
• 1 1/2 ounces ground almonds
• 1 (500 g) package puff pastry, thawed if frozen
• pouring cream or whipped cream, to serve

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 200*c (400*f).
• 2 melt the butter in a 28 cm tart tin over a medium heat.
• 3 tip in the sugar and 1 tbs water and cook for a few minutes, stirring all the time until lightly browned.
• 4 if it looks slightly crumbly at this stage don't be put off, it will right itself in the oven.
• 5 remove from the heat and put the plums in, cut side up.
• 6 chop the marzipan into as many chuncks as tehre are plum halves and put a chunk of marzipan in the hole in each plum left by the stone.
• 7 sprinkle a small pile of ground almonds over each plum half.
• 8 roll out the pastry and trim to 3 cm larger than the tin all around.
• 9 lift the pastry on to the tin and tuck it down between the plums and the inside of the tin.
• 10 bake for 30 to 35 minutes until the pastry is risen, crisp and golden.
• 11 cool for 10 minutes in the tin, then place a large flat plate with a rim over the tin.
• 12 holding it over the sink, incase of drips, carefully invert the tart onto the plate.
• 13 some juice from the plums is likely to escape, but it's delicious, especially when mingled with pouring cream.