Blue Cheese Appetizer Tart
From lacrenshaw 16 years ago
- 37 minutes to make
- Serves 16
Courtesy of landolakes.com, this recipe sounds almost too good to be true!
Ingredients
- CRUST: shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 cup cold butter, in chunks shopping list
- 4 to 5 tablespoons ice water shopping list
- FILLING: shopping list
- 8 ounce cream cheese, siftened shopping list
- 1/3 cup blue cheese, crumbled shopping list
- 1/4 cup whipping cream shopping list
- 1 large egg, slightly beaten shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon coarse ground pepper shopping list
- 1/3 cup roasted red peppers, chopped shopping list
- 3 tablespoons pine nuts OR your favorite nut, toasted and chopped shopping list
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, chopped shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Place flour in large bowl OR bowl of food processor.
- Cut in butter with pastry blender OR pulse in processor to coarse crumbs.
- Mix in water until flour is just moistened OR pulse until dough pulls aways from sides of processor and forms a ball.
- Shape dough into a ball.
- Roll pastry on lightly floured surface to a 12" circle.
- Place pastry into a 9 or 10" tart pan with removable bottom OR a pie pan.
- Press firmly onto bottom and up sides of pan.
- Cut away excess pastry.
- Prick pastry all over with a fork.
- Line pastry with aluminum foil. Pour dry beans on top of foil.
- Bake 17 to 22 minutes OR until lightly browned.
- Meanwhile, combine cream cheese and blue cheese in a large bowl.
- Beat at medium speed, scraping bowl often, until creamy.
- While beating, gradually add the whipping cream, egg and pepper.
- Blend well.
- Spread into baked pastry shell.
- Sprinkle with roasted red pepper, pine nuts and parsley.
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes OR until filling is set.
- Let stand 20 minutes before serving.
- Cut into wedges.
- Store leftovers covered and refrigerated.
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
lovin anything blue cheese!
midgelet
in Whereabouts loved it
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Love this tart...I'd be using walnuts instead of pine nuts (I'm not fond of the pine nut) But walnuts and blue cheese are a heavenly match in my opinion. Thanks for the post. Have a great day, dear.
notyourmomma
in South St. Petersburg loved it
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Looks beautiful and elegant! Love the blue cheese and pine nuts in this!
juels
in Clayton loved it
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