Swiss Style Apricot Tart

A sweet treat today! Last week we arrived to the family holiday house in the south of Switzerland, in the region called Ticino for a well deserved holiday. My uncle and aunt were waiting for us to handle over the keys of the house and they had baked a delicious apricot tart for us. It was the same tart that my grandmother  used to bake, she did it sometimes with apricot, sometimes with prunes and even with cherries. We used to eat it as main dish for dinner, not as desert. 

Of course I immediately asked for the recipe and here it is! It is so easy and the result is good,

Ingredients and steps:

- puff pastry or short crust pastry

- about 100 gr ground hazelnuts ( enough to cover the pastry)

- about 800 gr Apricots

- 3eggs

- 250 ml cream

- 2 bags vanilla sugar (about 16 gr)

- optional: sugar to taste

Place the pastry in a baking dish. Cover the whole surface with the ground hazelnuts.

Half the apricots and place them on the pastry.

In a big bowl, mix the eggs, the cream and the vanilla sugar and pour over the apricots.

Place in the a pre-heated oven at 200 degrees for about 30 minutes.

You can replace the apricots by prunes, cherries, apple or any fruit you like.