Tart Love: Sassy, Savory, Sweet

Good flavors. Cooking times off.I have tried 3 recipes now, the onion and bacon tart, the fennel and orange tart and the sage green apple and cheddar tart. While the flavors were good, the cooking time both on stove top and in oven was waaaaay off. I was nwarly late to class one morning. I had 3 hours 15 minutes from when I got up to when I usually left for class. That should have been PLENTY of time!! I had to leave 15 minutes later than usual, so all total, the tart took 3 and a half hours! I cooked those onions for 45 minutes and they were still crunchy, not soft as they should have been per the recipe. The pastry crust took longer to cook though I made it thinner than the 1/4 inch the recipe called for. The fennel orange tart has been in the oven now for over 2x the time called for in the recipe and the dough is still raw! The filling mixture for every recipe is way too much and too watery. Dough turns mushy and doesnt cook. Fillings take at least twice as long to cook and tarts themselves take 2-3 times as long to cook. I have an calibrated oven temp thermometer (husband is an electrical engineer :). So I know what my oven temp is.The flavors are good though. Once cooked

Only tried out on recipe so far (peach, pancetta goat cheese crystallized ginger tartlet) but it turned out great! The instructions on tart dough were straightforward and easy to follow. I used my kitchenaid mixer and it worked well. The tarts were a gotta out party and I can't wait to try out some of the other recipes in the book!

I absolutely love this book. The recipes are easy to follow and come out terrific. Beautiful pictures. Makes a great gift.

I baked a few recipes from this book and it was wonderful. The recipes is simple and turned out tasting good. The pictures is mouth watering. The book contained both sweet and savory tarts. I can't wait to bake my way through the book.

Holly Herrick is no doubt a tart lover, just look how she added personal twists in traditional recipes. Some ingreidents might not very easy to find in supermarkets, but the results worth the effort.

This recipe book is absolutely amazing, beautiful and open your appetite !I like to bake gluten-free goodies and i can even adapt these recipes with myGluten-free flours.Have to buy it !Michele

Lots of slightly complicated recipes. I like several of them, and the photos are just gorgeous.

One thing i didn't like is that not every recipe has an image,And usually i would pick a recipe by his photo...