Blooming Peach and Blueberry Tart
on Sep 09, 2013, Updated Apr 07, 2020
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Can we squeeze out just a few more days of summer? Pleaaaaaase? The season is just too comfy, fragrant, and downright delicious to let go without a fight. To that end, there are still some summertime favorites lingering at the farmer’s markets, the produce stands, and on our kitchen counter. We have well established the great relationship between peaches and blueberries. Here is one more and it’s for you, September.
This is one of those treats that I played around with a little. I’m fortunate to have great work colleagues who are always willing to sample my “experiments.” The folks I work with are always so nice, sometimes a bit too nice. For instance, when I brought in the initial rendition of this recipe, I thought something was missing. No one voiced similar sentiment but my suspicion is that it was out of sheep politeness on their part.
Perhaps what I brought into the folks at work was just fine, maybe even delicious. The next time ’round though at home, I made it even better. Pouring in just a wee bit of Rum Chata elevated this dessert pastry from an “Ooooooo,” at best, to a solid “Ahhhhhhh.”
It is amazing what you can put together if you start with a base of a good pastry recipe. Or pizza dough recipe, or cookie recipe, or sauce recipe.. You get the idea – the possibilities are only as limited as your imagination.
For this tart, maybe it was the fresh peaches, it could have been the wild blueberries, or it could have been the crisp bottle of Sauvignon Blanc from Villa Maria. I think it was all of this, and the Rum Chata
We served this to some guests, on a warm mid-summer day with abounding sunshine and an eastern breeze coming off the adjacent corn fields.
Make this while the days permit. The pumpkins are getting bigger with each day, and it won’t be long before the apples are ready to be plucked.
Blooming Peach and Blueberry Tart
Ingredients
- for the crust
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1/3 cup ice water
- 2 eggs, beaten separately. Reserve one for egg wash.
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- for the filling
- 6 ripe peaches, washed with skins in tact
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- juice from 1/2 lemon
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon nutmeg, optional
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves, optional
- 1/2 cup Rum Chata
- 1 tablespoon corn starch
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees, F.
- for the crust
- Combine flour, shortening, sugar, and salt.
- Work together with fork until consistency is pebbly..
- In separate small mixing bowl, beat egg, add water and vinegar, beat again.
- Add liquid mixture to flour and shortening..
- Stir with fork, combine thoroughly, form into ball, divide in two
- Roll one ball out on lightly floured piece of parchment paper, to 12 inch diameter
- Repeat with remaining ball of dough.
- for the filling
- Slice peaches in half, remove pit, slice each half lengthwise again.
- In large mixing bowl combine peaches with remaining ingredients and gently stir until well mixed.
- Allow mixture to sit 5 minutes.
- To Assemble Tart
- Arrange peach slices in circular pattern around center of each shell crust
- Divide blueberries between the tarts, carefully spooning them out in the center of peaches
- Fold dough over fruit, pleating as you go.
- Brush egg wash over pastry
- Sprinkle with course sugar
- Bake for 45 minutes or until golden brown.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This is just incredible!
I love this post and your Blooming Peach and Blueberry Tart is gorgeous. Great job!!
Thank you Susie!
G’day! Love the combination of blueberry and peach and wish I could try your tart now Dan!
Cheers! Joanne
Thanks, Joanne!
This tart is bursting with flavors Dan! Send a piece over here please!
Thanks, Katerina and I would love to!
Wow!! Guys!! This is fantastic. I love those delicious fresh peaches and blueberries. This tart looks fantastic. Looking forward to all these fruits coming into season here so that I can make all your wonderful fresh fruit recipes 🙂
We appreciate hearing from you and yes, I think you’re going to enjoy this one!
A real beauty! This is so inviting and I don’t mean just that bottle of wine! I bet it tasted just as good as it looks. Job well done!
Thanks so much; wish you had been here!
Wow, how gorgeous is this dessert. Peach and Bluberry are two of my favourite summer flavours to pair together.
Cindy, it’s so great to read your comments and yes, there’s no going wrong with blueberries and peaches!
I almost wept while looking at that beautiful tart I don’t think that I’ve ever come across a more gorgeous looking specimen. I am also trying that pastry shell …simply beautiful.
Jayne,
Thank you very much.