Pictured in this post is a blackberry and peach tart I made in July. My mom gave me a bunch of fresh fruit she’d picked locally…probably more than we could eat before they went bad. Since blackberries don’t seem to keep particularly well, I turned them into these tarts.

They’re made with a walnut shortbread crust that I adapted from an almond shortbread crust recipe I previously used to make cherry tarts. I liked that crust a lot so it was an easy choice for this tart. I believe that this recipe is the one I used to make the original almond crust. Go figure, it’s a Dorie Greenspan recipe from Bon Appetit. I should have known.

To assemble the tart, I lightly pressed the shortbread into the tart pans, sliced the peaches, tossed them gently with a little bit of flour, sugar and cinnamon and layered them in the shortbread crust. The blackberries were then scattered over the peaches. I wanted the fruit in this tart to remain separate…unlike some previous berry and peach things I’ve made where the fruit melded together.

The fruit was then topped with an oatmeal walnut crumb topping and baked until the crust was golden brown.

Other stuff: Sadly, the week at the beach is coming to a close…it kind of went by too fast. We went on a day trip to Charleston, SC yesterday. We didn’t set out to see anything in particular…we simply parked the car and walked around all afternoon taking photographs. I’ll probably write a post about that trip as we took a lot of pretty decent pictures.

Other than the trip to Charleston, I’ve just lazed about all week. I spent a little more time on the internet than I should have and I did a fair amount of reading but I didn’t touch any of the knitting I brought with me. I really should start knitting again…if for no reason other than I have an awful lot of yarn in my stash. Maybe the mood will strike once we’ve moved and are completely settled into the new house. Or maybe the knitting bug will strike again once fall arrives.

We’ll be heading back to Williamsburg in the morning…as much as I don’t want the vacation to end, I will be glad to be at home to bake. I’ve been craving sweets all week and I really don’t like grocery store desserts anymore. Ice cream kind of did the trick yesterday…but baked from scratch goodies would have been better. Oh well…I’ll be home to make them soon enough.

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