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Croûte d’abricots with lavender & honey

14 Comments Sweet baking Patisserie, tart

Apricots, lavender and honey, a perfect marriage!

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This recipe is very close to my heart. I have been making it in various shapes and sizes for some years now. It is a classic combination of ingredients that make you long for the Provence. Dreaming about plucking the ripe apricots from your own garden, collecting lavender from the purple fields.

The recipe is really very simple and straightforward, combining, pouring and baking basically. You can make it your own by varying the amount of lavender, making it with melted butter or beurre noisette, using different types of honey (lavender would be obvious, but outside the Provence it is hard to get) or even using different fresh fruits. This recipe provides the perfect amount for 6 to 8 people. Especially when you serve it with cream or ice cream on the side. You can bake a double batch of course, but I would always recommend making the right amount for the party because this tart also is best eaten while fresh.

Happy baking!


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Ingredients

serves 6-8

120 g almond flour

50 g melted butter or beurre noisette

50 g (lavender) honey

pinch of salt

1 egg

1/2 tsp dried organic lavender

butter and icing sugar to prepare the tart pan

4 to 6 fresh apricots, stoned and quartered

Croûte d’abricots - combining ingredients
Croûte d’abricots - adding the (brown) butter
Croûte d’abricots - pouring the mixture in tat pan
Croûte d’abricots - arranging  the apricot quarters
Croûte d’abricots with lavender and honey

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Making the Croûte d’abricots
Preheat your oven at 175 ºC / 350 ºF, conventional setting.

Prepare a 20 cm / 7.8 inches shallow tart pan by brushing it with butter and giving it a coating of icing sugar.
Start by melting the butter or making a beurre noisette (browned butter with lovely nutty taste). Set aside and leave to cool. In a bowl combine the almond flour, honey, egg, pinch of salt and dried lavender flowers. Then add the melted or brown butter and whisk until smooth.

Pour this mixture in your mold and spread evenly. Press the apricot quarters in the mixture, arrange them the way you like best.
Bake in the oven for about 35 minutes. Keep an eye on the crust and make sure it does not brown too fast, otherwise turn the oven down to about 160 ºC / 320 ºF from the point of perfect crust color.

Take from the oven and leave to cool and firm up slightly before releasing it. Leave to cool completely, dust with icing sugar and serve.

Sweet baking Patisserie, tart

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  1. Emilie says

    July 27, 2021 at 11:22

    It is not the best cake I have ever eaten. Indeed, the “pâte d’amande” is a little bit too buttery, like it is a sponge of butter and it is not agreable. Also, it is sweet enough and the lavender goes very well with apricots, but is lacks of something.

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  2. Bill Brown says

    May 20, 2017 at 00:34

    I baked this in an 8″ spring form. I quartered 4 apricots. The filling wasn’t deep enough to imbed the fruit so it stood proud before and after baking. The edged browned well before the center, I lowered the temp to 325 and baked it another 12 minutes to make the center firm up. It never did brown. I’m confident I had the ingredients and portions correct.

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      May 25, 2017 at 11:59

      Hi Bill,
      The spring form and the height compared to the height of the pie, probably kept it from browning. Try an open pie dish and maybe the place in the oven, closer to the heat, would make a difference. It could also be your oven is a little bit different from ours and it would also make a difference to bake at 180C for example.

      Happy baking

      Reply
  3. Fatima Gull says

    August 14, 2016 at 12:43

    Lavender…

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  4. Cathlene says

    September 12, 2015 at 09:46

    Thanks so much for sharing your wonderful baking tips and recipes.

    Reply
  5. NJ-Cook4You says

    August 27, 2015 at 13:55

    Need to make these immediately! My mouth is watering!

    Greets,

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  6. Henriette De Kort says

    August 18, 2014 at 21:53

    This evening after dinner I decided to make this delicious tart with the Mirabelle plums falling from the tree in our garden. The harvest of Mirabelles has been processed into jam and preserved on white wine sirop, the ones which are too high up in the tree to reach are now falling down and some were used to fill this tart instead of apricots. This tart is a winner! So quick to make, I ground whole almonds in the food processor, left out the lavender, but added a few drops of bitter almond extract bought in France to bring out the almond flavour. Delicious! Thank you for sharing.

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      August 23, 2014 at 11:29

      Hello Henriette,
      This sounds a bit like a fairytale 🙂 Ripe fruit in abundance ready to be plucked or already falling from the heavy branches. You are very lucky to have this in your own garden. We love mirabelles and we have never made this tart with them but can imagine it being just perfect, also with the added bitter almond extract which fills your kitchen with the scents of a French patisserie.

      Thank you for sharing too and have a great (baking) weekend!

      Marieke & Ed

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  7. Yyw says

    August 9, 2014 at 23:03

    Hello, what do you think substituting 1/4 to 1/3 apple sauce for butter? Would it make the tart not crunchy?

    But i plan to cut the sugar by a lot, so the crust will be v dry, makes using peaches a good option. Still i am thinking the possibility of appplesauce.

    Thanks!

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      August 11, 2014 at 15:18

      Hello Yyw,
      We do not know exactly your reasons for wanting the change the recipe (calories we guess, if you use apple sauce without added sugar) and we cannot really help you with an answer because we have never tried substituting apple sauce for butter.
      But we know from reading about it it works well in cakes. If you also use a lot less honey the result will be indeed very different from the original, especially with the apricots, which are tart, so peaches is a good alternative there. The only way to find out would be baking it the way you have planned it.

      Good luck with the project and happy baking!

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      • yy says

        August 15, 2014 at 20:22

        Hello Master Baker!

        What is the texture of the cake/tart? Is it like shortbread, pound cake, or ? This could help me figure out if I should add applesauce, which contains moisture that will certainly make the output cakey.

        Thanks much, good weekend!
        yy

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        • Weekend Bakers says

          August 17, 2014 at 20:01

          Hello YY,
          The structure is (as you can maybe judge from the last picture) more cake-like but not the same as cake and certainly not like shortbread. Moisture-wise I think you will be OK.

          Good luck!

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  8. jeff kwak says

    July 18, 2014 at 05:48

    Hi, I have a question. Do you guys think that I can substitute apricots with peaches? I am worried that it would make too much water and compromise the entire croute. Thanks for your advice in advance.

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    • Weekend Bakers says

      July 18, 2014 at 08:52

      Hi Jeff,
      Only one way to find out (we have not made this with peaches, but we did with plums and that was great too)….I think it will be OK to use peaches, but I would suggest using peaches that are not too ripe. A little bit of extra moisture is no problem, it will be absorbed by the batter and may even become better this way.

      Happy croute baking and a great weekend!

      Marieke

      Reply

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