Easter Pear Tart

Ingredients

Sweet pastry:

• 300 g plain flour
• 110 g caster sugar
• 150 g butter
• 1 egg

Filling and topping:

• 6 pears
• preheat the oven to 180°c (350°f/gas 4)
• 175 g butter
• 175 g caster sugar
• 150 g ground almonds
• 50 g plain flour
• 3 large eggs

Pear, Almond and Chocolate Crumble

Ingredients

• 12 pears (about 900g in total, peeled, cored and cut into 2cm cubes)
• 2 tblsp caster sugar
• 75 g plain flour
• 1 tblsp ground cinnamon (optional)
• 75 gground almonds
• 75 g butter (chilled and diced)
• 75 g dark chocolate (roughly chopped, or dark chocolate drops)
• 75 g soft light brown sugar

Pear tart with Chantilly cream and butterscotch

Ingredients

• 6 ripe pears
• 4 puff pastry discs
• 100 g sugar & 100mls water (to make sugar syrup)
• 50 g sugar
• 1 pinch cinnamon

Butterscotch

• 100 g brown sugar
• 100 g cream
• 25 g butter
• 1-2 drops of vanilla essence
• 1 large pinch of sea salt