Fig Tart with White Chocolate

Discover the ultimate La Mercè tart recipe: a buttery sablée crust, almond cream filling, white chocolate crème pâtissière, and figs.

Recipe

Sablé Dough

ingredients preparation
  • 180g
    butter
  • 3g
    salt
  • 45g
    almond flour
  • 72g
    eggs
  • 398g
    flour
  • 975g
    icing sugar

Mix together the cold butter, powdered sugar, salt and almond flour.
Add the egg and the flour last.
Spread out to 4 mm thickness and line the tartlet tins with it once cold.

Almond Cream

ingredients preparation
  • 400g
    marzipan
  • 200g
    eggs
  • 100g
    Cornstarch
  • 200g
    softened butter

Soften the butter, mix in all the ingredients and emulsify.

Crème pâtissière

ingredients preparation

To prepare the crème pâtissière, boil the milk and cream along with the vanilla extract, lemon peel, cinnamon stick
and the sugars.

Allow to infuse for 2 minutes and strain.
Separately, mix together the yolks and the cornflour.
Add the previous mixture and boil.
When the cream is cooked, add the white chocolate.

Assembly

Spoon the almond cream over the tartlet and arrange the chopped figs on top.
Bake at 155ºC for 20 minutes.
When cold, pour out the cream and garnish with figs.