The second recipe for Tuesdays with Dorie is Cranberry Crackle Tart, found on pages 135-137 of Dorie Greenspan's Baking Chez Moi book. Dorie has also published this recipe on her website, so you can click here to get this week's recipe from her.
Ingredient list: for the sweet tart dough (flour, powdered sugar, salt, unsalted butter, and egg yolk), for the filling (jam, egg white, salt, sugar, cranberries), for the optional topping (powdered sugar).
There are just two of us here now that the boys are off at college and such, so I have been learning the art of making "mini" or smaller portions of desserts. I first started experimenting with this when I was doing the first round of TWD Baking From My Home To Yours and found that Dorie's recipes have always worked for me when I reduced them by halves or thirds or even fourths. I manage to get good results every time, which is not always the case with reducing recipes. So, kudos to Dorie for that.
For this recipe, I chose to make it in a 6" tart pan (for which I used a third of the dough recipe and a half of the filling recipe). This half-size baked in the oven for about the same amount of time, about 10 minutes less than stated in the recipe.
The recipe was easy to follow and execute and the results were delicious (a nice tart/sweet sensation with the unsweetened cranberries and the sugar in the recipe). It was also very pretty, always a plus in my book...I'm all about the cute in food. The cranberries make it perfect for Thanksgiving or Christmas. Would I make this recipe again? Absolutely, definitely a keeper.
Check around with the other bakers this week and see how they did with the recipe this week. The blogroll can be found here.
Come and bake with us from Dorie Greenspan's Baking Chez Moi cookbook: the December assignments are as follows. December 9 - The Rugelach That Won Over France, page 30, and December 23 - Gingerbread Buche de Noel, page 86. Since there is an extra Tuesday in December, the group will use that Tuesday (December 30) to Rewind (the opportunity to make up a missed recipe) or bake another recipe from another of Dorie's baking books or just take the week off. The Tuesdays with Dorie group information for joining the group, recipe selection, and general information can be found here.