Fruit Tart

Let me start out by saying, though there are some things I bake regularly, I am not a baker, or a pastry chef. This is probably my single biggest short coming when it comes to cooking.  That being said, my wife has spent a lot of time working with pastries and helps me make up for this lack of experience. Actually she is mostly responsible for this post. You see my wife has a tradition of having fruit tart instead of cake for her birthday. So, here is the story It was my wife’s birthday and we were looking to buy a fruit tart for her, and trust me, we searched just about everywhere, apparently people around here just don’t appreciate that kind of thing. Anyways, we eventually came to the conclusion that we had to make our own, digging through our collection of food stuff . . . yes we have a lot of really random food stuff in the kitchen pretty much all the time. . .  we discovered that we had everything except some berry’s and kiwi, so we went to work. I made the pastry cream while my wife made the Pate Sucrѐe , or the pastry dough and made a chocolate crust. We then put it all together and put the fruit on top. It was delicious and definitely better than we could have found in a store .

*Edit* to clarify, yes we had to go to the store to get the kiwi since, as I mentioned that was one of the few things we didn't have.