French pear tart (Tarte bourdaloue ou tarte aux poires et frangipane)

My husband's favorite dessert is a french tart with pears and almond paste that in french is called "tarte aux poires et frangipane" or "tarte bourdaloue" or "tarte aux poires normande" as it's origon is Normandy in north of France.
I just made a great version of it and all family got excited ! As always, I will note it down in my blog to never miss it again :) As one thing is sure: I am going to make it again soon !
Here it goes...



Ingredients
Base: (or just buy the french short pastry called "pate sablee")
100 gr butter cut in small cubes
1 spoonful of sugar
1 cup of flour
a bit of salt
1 egg

Frangipan cream (almond paste): 
80 gr of ground almonds
80 gr of sugar
80 gr soften butter
1 egg
1 spoonful of flour
vanilla or few drops of almond extract

a big can with pears in syrop

Procedure

Mix well the ingredients for the base to make a small ball and leave it in the fridge for about an hour.

Take it out of the fridge and roll the pastry in a round dish for tarts to cover all the base and a bit the surroundings.

Preheat the oven at 175 degrees of Celsius and fan.

Beat well the ingredients for the frangipan cream and empty it on the pastry.

Put evenly the half pears on top and press a bit to the frangipan. Decorate if you wish with some sliced almonds.


Bake for 30min and let it cool down before serving.
Optionally, you can warm a bit of honey and jam and brush the pears to make them look shiny.

To hubby with love !!!