Maple-Pear Tarte Tatin
Description
This maple-pear tarte tatin recipe poaches pears in a maple caramel sauce before baking with a puff pastry crust. It's a simple yet elegant dessert.
Ingredients
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1/2 (17 3/10 ounce) package frozen puff pastry, thawed
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1/4 cup butter
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1/3 cup brown sugar
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1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
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1 pinch ground nutmeg
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1/4 cup maple syrup
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4 firm pears - peeled, cored, and halved, or more as needed
Directions
1
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
2
Roll out puff pastry on a lightly floured surface to ¼-inch thickness; place in refrigerator.
3
Melt butter in a 9-inch cast-iron skillet over medium heat; add brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cook and stir until sugar dissolves, about 5 minutes. Stir in maple syrup; cook and stir until begins to bubble. Remove skillet from heat.
4
Place 1 pear half, cut-side up, into center of skillet. Cut remaining pear halves in half; arrange pear quarters around center pear, cut-sides up.
5
Place skillet over medium-low heat; cook pears, basting with syrup mixture, until pears begin to soften, about 5 minutes. Remove skillet from heat.
6
Place puff pastry over pears, tucking edges around pears in skillet.
7
Bake in the preheated oven until pastry is puffed and golden, about 20 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes. Place a serving plate over skillet; carefully invert to release tart onto plate (skillet will still be hot). Serve warm.