Yesterday I made the twin to this tart. This one I made when D.--a friend who's really a brother--was visiting. He was to arrive around 5, and though we had dinner plans and cocktail foods might have been in order, I thought that he would want a warming homey welcome instead.
It's a custard tart, but made with croissant dough. I looked in the freezer, I was sure I had some dough stashed away. I was wrong. But determined! And so in a heavy day of work, I found myself compelled to rush home in mini breaks to roll out the dough, and folding and turning, each time rolling out with it the ever thinner layers of butter encased within.
Work
Run
Roll
Fold
Chill
Run
Work
And again. And again.
Though huffing and puffing, I thought I had done it all seamlessly until I noticed someone looking at me perplexed and I realised I had flour on my face. But it's for D.! He'll love it!! He'll feel everything he's meant to from it!!!
When it came to baking, a bit of distraction set in, and it got a bit more time in the oven than I intended. See the darker edges. Damn. But surely it won't matter he won't notice he'll read through it it's ok I mean look at it and it's CROISSANT.
So you'd think. But when he heard my fake humility before a masterpiece--"sorry the crust got a bit too much heat"--instead of telling me that he hadn't noticed, that the whole is divine he answered: "It's okay. I'll just sit here and gnaw on it." Grrr. Yeah, a friend who's just like a brother.
Sounds pretty good to me,caramelised edges or no...
Posted by: Lucy | November 17, 2008 at 02:08 AM
It's you I should make it for, Lucy!
Posted by: Tori | November 21, 2008 at 10:20 AM
Oh dear lord. This might possibly be the dessert of my dreams.
Posted by: Philippa | December 02, 2008 at 06:55 AM
Phillipa--it's truly magnificent. And fantastic for breakfast too.
Posted by: Tori | December 09, 2008 at 07:48 PM
omg. you wouldn't even have to put the initial in and i could have told you who that was! ha. ingrate.
Posted by: rebecca | January 05, 2009 at 05:34 PM