To make the filling, beat the butter and sugar together with an electric mixer until creamy. Beat in the egg, followed by the almonds, flour and extract. Spread evenly in the cooled tart shell. Cut ...

When you host your friends and family for Christmas dinner, you’re likely planning to spend all day in the kitchen as you build out your holiday-themed main course. So when it’s time for dessert, you ...

I’m a happy camper this time of year, and no, not because kids are going back to school. Mid-August is when Italian plums come to market. To find them piled high in wooden pint baskets at a local ...

Plums are typically eaten out of hand, but I especially love them cooked into a tart, fragrant ruby-red medley. Adding only a handful of raspberries to the plums enhances the plums with berry flavor.

I’m a happy camper this time of year, and no, not because kids are going back to school. Mid-August is when Italian plums come to market. To find them piled high in wooden pint baskets at a local ...

A rich pastry encloses the tart plums. Make any shape of individual tart you prefer and serve with vanilla ice cream. Combine butter, cream cheese, flour and salt in food processor. Process with on ...

Italian prune plums are the start of this tart built on a lemon shortbread crust. (Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS) Fresh fruit is begging to be made into pie during summer. But so are some ...

Galettes are already like lazy pie—add puff pastry and it’s even easier. This one takes under an hour to make, start to finish. One of the many perks of upside-down cake is that it practically ...

This week, I was invited to a friend’s place to break the fast for Yom Kippur. I was tasked with making a dessert, and after a lot of research on what is traditional for the holiday, I found that, ...

Few things hit the spot like a good Plum Preserves Recipe. Making plum preserves at home is a classic way to hold onto the bold, sweet-tart flavor of summer’s best plums. People love these preserves ...

Believe it or not, that’s the question a food writer asked in a 1934 edition of the Washington Post. About this time of year, you may think you’re tired of salads, but there are hundreds of new ones ...