Inspired by Masterchef last night, starring so called celebrities. Some bint, who’s famous for socializing, made a frangipan tart. I felt like making  some kind of frangipan tart, found Paul Hollywood’s recipe with apricots and pears. I had neither, but I had strawberries.

Izzie was asleep upstairs, like a good child that she is, so I managed to do the whole thing in one go. Sweet shortcrust pastry( 250 g of plain flour, 125 g of butter, 2 egg yolks, some sugar and a drop of water to bind it), blind baked it in 200 degrees for 15 minutes with baking beans and then about 8 minutes without. Then, on the bottom went some strawberry jam followed by the said frangipan. Easy, Kitchen Aid did the job-for my small round tin I used 62 g of butter and sugar, nicely creamed together, 75 g of ground almonds, 25 g of plain flour, 1,5 egg and a generous tsp of vanilla paste. It smelled great. Onto the frangipan went sliced strawberries and chopped hazelnuts( ran out of almonds). And all that baked in 160 degrees for about 40 minutes.

Very pleased with the pastry and the whole thing, strawberries were a good choice with the sweet tart, they balanced the taste nicely. Will be playing with frangipan again.