For Fall or Halloween: Kabocha Squash Tart

Name: For Fall or Halloween: Kabocha Squash Tart
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 400 to 500 grams Kabocha squash; 400 ml Water; 2 cups' worth Sugar; 20 grams Honey; 1 Butter; 75 grams Unsalted butter; 35 grams Granulated sugar (or white sugar); 1 large Egg yolk; 110 grams Cake flour; 40 grams Almond flour; 60 grams Unsalted butter; 60 grams Ground almond powder; 60 grams Granulated sugar (or white sugar); 1 large Egg; 1 tsp Rum (optional); 200 grams Heavy cream; 15 to 20 grams Sugar; 1 Nappage

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A cake shop featured on a local TV program showed a delicious looking kabocha squash tart, and said that they "simmered the kabocha squash in syrup," so I tried to recreate it.

The key is to pile the kabocha squash up high on top of the tart. It will look extravagant! There are so many steps in the instructions that I had to cut the tart making instructions, so I borrowed user "Yukirain's" recipe.
I used a kabocha squash variety called "Chestnut marron". For 15 cm [5.9 in] diameter tart pan. Recipe by Junshimu

A cake shop featured on a local TV program showed a delicious looking kabocha squash tart, and said that they "simmered the kabocha squash in syrup," so I tried to recreate it.

cookpad.japan @cookpad_jp

A cake shop featured on a local TV program showed a delicious looking kabocha squash tart, and said that they "simmered the kabocha squash in syrup," so I tried to recreate it.

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Ingredients

4 servings

400to 500 grams Kabocha squash
400 mlWater
2cups' worth Sugar
1:1 water to sugar ratio
20 gramsHoney
1Butter
The tart crust:
75 gramsUnsalted butter
35 gramsGranulated sugar (or white sugar)
1 largeEgg yolk
110 gramsCake flour
40 gramsAlmond flour
For the almond cream:
60 gramsUnsalted butter
60 gramsGround almond powder
60 gramsGranulated sugar (or white sugar)
1 largeEgg
1 tspRum (optional)
For the topping:
200 gramsHeavy cream
15to 20 grams Sugar
1Nappage

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Steps

1

Make the tart crust. Refer "Basic Tart Crust"by user "Yukirain".
2

Make the almond cream. Mix the room temperature butter and sugar together. When they are mixed together, add the egg and mix again.
3

Add the sifted almond flour and mix in. Add rum to taste.
4

Put the almond cream in the tart crust, and bake in a preheated 360°F/180°C for about 40 minutes.
5

When it's baked, leave to cool in the tart pan.
6

While the tart cools, make the topping. Cut the kabocha squash into 1-2 cm cubes and cut up the skin (you could cut up the skin after cooking the kabocha squash).
7

Put water, the sugar, and honey in a pan and heat until the sugar is dissolved. Add the kabocha squash and cut up the skin.
8

When it's bubbling, turn the heat down to low. Cover with a piece of aluminium foil placed on top of the contents of the pan to act as a drop lid (otoshibuta). Simmer until a bamboo skewer goes through a piece of kabocha squash easily.
9

When the kabocha squash has been simmered until tender, turn off the heat and leave in the pan until cooled (if possible, leave it to cool in the refrigerator until the next day).
10

When the kabocha squash has cooled, take each piece out and pat dry with paper towels.
11

Heat a pan to melt the butter, and sauté half of the dried kabocha squash pieces.
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You just need to brown the pieces slightly (I just did half the pieces, but you can sauté all the kabocha squash if you like. Or you can omit this step entirely. It's up to you.)
13

When the kabocha squash is sautéed, pile them up on the baked and cooled tart.
14

Brush with the apricot glaze. Chop up 2 to 3 of the simmered kabocha squash skin pieces and scatter on top.
15

Whip the cream with sugar until soft peaks form, and decorate the tart with it. (I used a round icing tip, but use whatever you like.)
16

If you have time, you should have some leftover tart crust dough, so make some cut out cookies with it to decorate the tart with.
17

Since this tart is for Halloween, I made pumpkin and heart shaped cut out cookies to decorate.
18

You can also dust the perimeter of the tart with powdered sugar.
19

You don't have to sauté the kabocha squash pieces, but the butter fragrance makes the tart more delicious, so I recommend it.
20

Here's how it looks when cut.