Showing posts with label Caramel nut tarts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caramel nut tarts. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Updates and new capers

Update on the HASfit  workouts: I'm faithfully doing them every three days, and picking different ones each time, to stay interested. At first I could only do the weight related reps for a limited number. And now I can do the whole workout just as shown. Weights no problem. So that's an advance in strength and stamina. Just to encourage anyone who's trying them.

And that yogurt pizza dough I made recently and froze part of as a kit? It thawed fine, tasted as good. So a second pizza worked.

And I wanted to see if it would be good for tarts, and to use my rarely used muffin pan. So I made a batch but this time used whole milk yogurt, and it was light-years easier to handle than the fatfree which was all I had in the house last time. And this time I refrigerated it while I had lunch, that soup in the background. Tomato, kidney bean, macaroni


I had no fruit for making jam, wondering what to make tarts with exactly, and thought, aha, nuts! Looked up recipes for caramel nut tarts. They all involved a tart tin which I don't have and anyway I really fancied the individual tarts. So I went ahead, halved the baking times as a guess, which worked. You prebake at 375f, then fill, then bake again at 400f.




Whole yogurt instead of cream, into the caramelized sugar, which took a lot longer than the 10 minutes in the recipe to turn color. Into it went the yogurt, honey (local, raw), butter, vanilla. They did warn that when the cream/ yogurt was added there would be a big reaction, and there was, but I was standing back. Then all the nuts, I had cashew and walnuts, but I expect it could be any old nuts, and spooned it into the tarts. 20 minutes at 400f and done.

No pictures of the caramel making, needed all focus on the boiling sugar and safe addition of other ingredients.



The pastry made exactly 12 tarts, using my crumpet tin as a cutter.

Interestingly, despite the sugar, this is quite a healthy dessert, what with yogurt and nuts and an absence of salt. Anyway that's my story. But I also refer to Heath Bars as Health Bars, so there's that.