Fruit tart with passion fruit pastry cream

I am back! yes I am adding something to my blog after a long, long time. The main reason for my lack of posting was the fact that I worked for almost 6 months at a bakery that opens close to my place, I was working part time there while keeping my full time job at the lab, it was hard but not super bad. I was in charge of the sweet stuff at the bakery, it was a good experience but is was not a nice one, the tools I had to make all the pastries was far from being close to ok!! can you imagine making 4-5 liters of pastry cream using a 2 liters pot (was a 1 liter pot the first week!) and a crappy $38 target electric cook top??, well I did it for 6 months! and that was just one of the things that were totally wrong at that place......

I am back to my normal life now so I have some time to blog now and then.....last weekend I found a nice passion fruit juice and several fresh fruits at the grocery store so I decided to make a fruit tart. I made the pastry cream using the passion fruit juice instead of milk and when I was ready to assemble the tart I whipped 100 ml of cream and mixed to the pastry cream, the result was a lighter pastry cream, super tasty, I loved it. The recipes for the pastry cream and the tart shell are in this post.

July took the three 4 inches tarts to the lab and everybody happens to like them, they were a very refreshing dessert for this texas spring/summer. Please enjoy it.