Milk Jam Tart with Spiced Crème Fraiche
Prep Time
30 min
Cook Time
2 hr
30 min
30 min
Serves
4
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 ½ cups (about 30) crushed buttery crackers
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 1/3 cup butter, melted
Filling
- 8 cups Gandy’s Dairy milk
- 2 ½ cups sugar
- 1 tablespoon baking soda
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
- 8 sheets gelatin
Spiced Crème Fraiche
- 1 cup crème fraiche
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- Sea salt
How to
- To make crust, heat oven to 350°F. In medium bowl stir together crushed crackers and sugar; slowly add melted butter, stirring with fork, until well mixed. Press mixture into bottom and up sides of 4 (3-inch) tart pans. Bake for 10 minutes; cool completely. Set aside.
- To make filling, in 2 ½-quart saucepan combine milk, sugar, baking soda and vanilla bean (pod and scrapings). Heat over medium high heat, stirring often, until mixture comes to a boil; reduce heat to low. Simmer, stirring and scraping bottom and sides of pan occasionally, until mixture is dark caramel color and jam-like texture (2 to 2 ½ hours). Bloom gelatin sheets by soaking in ice water for 1 minute. Remove gelatin sheets from ice water; squeeze excess moisture from sheets. Add to milk jam; stir to dissolve. Strain milk mixture through fine mesh sieve; pour into crusts in prepared tart pans. Cool to set (about 1 hour).
- Meanwhile, to make spiced crème fraiche, in small bowl stir together all spiced crème fraiche ingredients. Cover; refrigerate.
- To serve tarts, sprinkle with sea salt and dollop with spiced crème fraiche.