If you love pears, you surely haven't missed one of the most classic recipes in French pastry: the Bourdaloue tart! The addition of pears will allow you to finish your meal on a note that is both ...

This is the time of year when almost every type of pear can be found in area grocery stores: Anjou, Asian, Bartlett, Bosc, Comice and Seckel. The Bosc variety is our favorite, and Carlene uses it in ...

Alex Guarnaschelli is an Iron Chef, Food Network celebrity chef, author of Old-School Comfort Food and the executive chef at New York City’s Butter restaurants. Read her PEOPLE.com blog every Tuesday ...

I’ve been making this tart for many years in countless iterations. It all started way back when with Julia Child’s version of a red wine-poached pear tart filled with frangipane. A gorgeous ...

Pastry chef Kristen Hall of Bandit Patisserie in Birmingham, AL, swears by fraisage, a classic French technique she uses to create the flaky crust of this rich chocolate-almond pear tart. Fraisage ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. A pastry shell of ground almond meal, butter and sugar holds a pastry cream and poached pears. Sliced almonds finish off the ...

This elegant dessert takes just minutes to prepare and then bakes on its own, filling your kitchen with an enticing aroma. To serve warm, pop the tart into the oven just as you and your guests sit ...

The tart artist works in texture, contrasting crisp shell, supple filling, slippery slices of fruit. She works in color, choosing golden pastry, pale almonds, wine-stained pears. She works in pattern, ...

Welcome back to our new column at PEOPLE.com: the Tiny Test Kitchen. Here, we test recipes from the latest and greatest cookbooks and let you know how it went. Why Tiny Test Kitchen? Because we whip ...