A Simple Cherry Tarte

I freely admit that I can be rather lazy when it comes to cooking.  I know, it’s hard to believe but it’s true.  I got enough of having to cook fussy complicated recipes when I worked as a personal chef.  Now that I am retired I like to do simple things as much as possible.

I do confess that I enjoyed the being stretched part of my job as far as skills went . . .  I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t, but on a day to day basis, and at home, unless I am out to impress overly so . . .  I much prefer the simple things.   Simple doesn’t mean that it doesn’t taste good, or that it can’t be impressive.  It just means that it’s not a lot of work, and it uses ordinary things that anybody can afford or might keep in the larder most of the time.

Sometimes you can even cheat and it’s okay because the end result is amazingly delicious so nobody minds.   Dishes such as this fabulous tarte here today with it’s crisp puff pastry base and tinned cherry filling . . . okay, so the filling comes from a can . . . but you tell me one person who doesn’t like cherry pie filling.  They’re very rare I’ll wager.

So anyway . . .  you top the puff pastry with the cherry filling . . that’s the simple bit.  Next you make an oaty nutty cobbler topping, which you sprinkle over top.

Then you bake it all until the pastry is crisp and puffed . . . the cobbler topping is all buttery crisp too . . . with that sweet cherry layer in the middle, heaven.   But . . . that’s not all, no . . . that’s not all.  You melt some dark chocolate and drizzle it decoratively over top.   Yeppers!  Melted chocolate flicked all over the top of that crisp, crunchy fruity goodness.

But  . . . if you really want to make it special . . . serve it up with some clotted cream, or failing that . . . mascarpone cheese.  In for a penny in for a pound and all that . . .

Bound to become a favourite of family and guest alike.  Easy.  Tasty.   Beautiful to look at.  Winner Winner Winner.  Something for the weekend.  Scrummo!

*Cherry Cobbler Tarte*

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