Spiced Pear & Almond Tart – Matt Adlard

Ingredients

• 100 g Unsalted Butter, Cold & Cubed
• 95 g Icing Sugar / Powdered Sugar
• 30 g Ground Almonds
• 55 g Whole Eggs
• 55 g Cornstarch
• 185 g Plain Flour / All Purpose Flour
• 1 g Salt
• 10 Cloves
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• Peel of 1 Lemon
• Peel 1/2 Orange
• 1 Vanilla Pod (cut in half lengthways)
• 1250 ml Water
• 320 g Caster Sugar
• 2 Pears
• 150 g Unsalted Butter, Soft
• 150 g Icing Sugar / Powdered Sugar
• 110 g Whole Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla Bean Paste
• 18 g Cornstarch
• 150 g Ground Almonds
• 0.50 tsp Almond Extract (optional)
• Stand mixer
• 9-inch fluted tart tin