Hot Dish Review

It took a whole week to polish off last year’s tart so I only ordered three slices this year….still the best dessert in town!

MERRY CHRISTMAS HOTDISH READERS! MAY YOUR HOLIDAYS BE FILLED WITH CHAMPAGNE AND FOIE GRAS!

This is my favorite dessert of all time! Marla, chef and owner of Babette’s Cafe, is a food genius. The restaurant is among my top ten and the dried cherry tart ranks as the best dessert in Atlanta. Offered only in the Fall and Winter, I just can’t go to the restaurant when the tart is not on the menu.

I don’t know why I never did it before, but this year I ordered a whole tart for Christmas to take home to my family. The shelf life of the tart is several days so we split the leftover….no worries, I can polish it off! It combines tart, chewy dried cherries in a crisp almond pie crust.

Me and my Mom made homemade whipped cream (not so sweet, Deutschland style!) and I requested vanilla bean ice cream (Haagen Dazs Five,check out The Blissful Gluttons post) to top the tart slices. After Christmas Eve dinner at Red Lobster, we counteracted the white trash meal (I mean this in the best possible way) with the quintessential rich French/Southern tart.

Each tart is eight servings, however, we made it into 12. Damn, it’s good! The texture is amazing, the crisp nutty crust the perfect compliment to the sweet yet tart chewy dried cherries. I can’t believe I forgot to take a photo of the whole tart, but at least you can see half of it!

Coming from a chick that hates pie, this is not pie. You must try this!