The Sweet Life
Sample Recipes from The Sweet Life
This tart crust is crispy, light, and full of hazelnut flavor. Use it for the chocolate tart, as I suggest, or with the lemon or passion-...
This is a versatile, sweet, delicate, but crisp crust. The butter and sugar are creamed together for 8 minutes, which is very unusual. I ...
This dough is a cross between the traditional French pâte brisée (savory dough) and an American pie dough. It is wonderfully...
Wonderfully creamy and brimming with the flowery, tangerine flavor of Meyer lemons, this lemon curd is an excellent filling for tarts or ...
Passion-fruit puree or unsweetened juice makes a delicious curd. When I serve little passion-fruit tartlets on a petit four plate, people...
Fresh Huckleberry and Fig Tart
Wild huckleberries--tart, earthy, and packed with flavor--marry perfectly with figs--light in density, sweet, crunchy, and mellow. This c...

