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Browned Butter Dulce De Leche Tart

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This Browned Butter Dulce De Leche Tart has a shortbread tart crust covered in dulce de leche, candied nuts, and topped off with a chocolate drizzle!

This Browned Butter Dulce De Leche Tart has a shortbread tart crust covered in dulce de leche, candied nuts, and topped off with a chocolate drizzle!

So, I have this favorite restaurant. It’s called Claire’s on Cedros and if you live in San Diego and you haven’t been there, something is seriously wrong with you. It’s AMAZING. Claire, the owner, has been a family friend for years and has always been an incredible baker. If you’ve ever heard of Milton’s Bread, yeah, that’s her recipe.

Ever since I was little whenever we would go to her house she always had the most incredible breads, baked goods, and more memorably, gingerbread houses. She made the most incredible gingerbread houses ever. They were insane. Her house would be covered in them. They were so intricate and beautifully made, but their is one in particular that’s stuck in my head. It was a log cabin with a front porch, a swing, and a little basket of apples. It looked like the kind of house you’d want to grow up in if you lived in the rural pacific northwest. It was amazing.

Anyways, back to the restaurant. Ever since she’s opened last year, I’ve wanted to work there, but she always said I couldn’t because I was under 18 and wouldn’t be allowed to work the equipment. However…she recently had an epiphany that there was stuff I could do! So she hired me! So far I’ve had two days there and it’s been amazing. Some of my tasks are a bit mundane – filling and weighing out bags of granola, putting stickers on bags – but I’ve also been doing things like decorating cookies, which is so much fun and definitely good practice, and helping Claire with her catering orders. It’s incredible being her assistant. She’s like a dream mentor – someone who never went to culinary school but owns a hugely successful restaurant. It’s amazing working for her.

This Browned Butter Dulce De Leche Tart has a shortbread tart crust covered in dulce de leche, candied nuts, and topped off with a chocolate drizzle!

So meanwhile, while I’ve been at this job I’ve had a backseat look at all the baking and dessert-making they do at the restaurant. Claire is frequently creating new desserts, usually for catering events, and she happened to be recreating a tart she made for an event that had gotten rave reviews. It sounded – and looked – incredible. Tart dough filled with caramel, covered with macadamia nuts, and then covered in chocolate. Umm…YUM. It had me drooling, but it also had me thinking I should make more tarts. So I started brainstorming…but nothing too great came to mine.

When I got home though, I had a hankering for Lottie & Doof’s Brown Butter Shortbread so I whipped some up, put it in the tart pan to rest, and had an epiphany. The shortbread would be my tart crust! Fillings though. I wandered into my pantry and let my eyes rest upon my unopened can of dulce de leche. It was all coming together perfectly. I baked up the shortbread, spread on the dulce de leche, and then I considered covering in in chocolate, but nah. It needed something else. Boom! Candied nuts. I melted down some sugar and threw in the pecan and peanuts I had on hand. Then I drizzled, not drowned, the tart with chocolate. The Browned Butter Dulce de Leche Tart was born.

This morning, preparing to photograph, I cut a slice of my masterpiece. I took a few pictures and then called my mom down for a taste test. We both agreed – definitely the best thing I’ve ever made. Not kidding. It was that good. Heaven for dulce de leche lovers like us. It was insane. The browned butter  shortbread has a complex flavor on its own and gave some of that nuttiness and butteriness. The dulce de leche gave some smooth creaminess and sweetness. The candied nuts added the crunch and the chocolate tied it all together. It was elegant, gorgeous, delicious, and perfect. We loved it. We hope you will too.

This Browned Butter Dulce De Leche Tart has a shortbread tart crust covered in dulce de leche, candied nuts, and topped off with a chocolate drizzle!

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Browned Butter Dulce De Leche Tart


  • Author: Rachel Conners
  • Prep Time: 20 minutes
  • Cook Time: 45 minutes
  • Total Time: 65 minutes
  • Yield: 12 1x
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Ingredients

  • 1 ½ sticks (12 tablespoons) unsalted butter
  • ½ cup lightly packed dark brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon sea salt (I used fleur de sel)
  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 14 oz. can of dulce de leche
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup pecans, toasted
  • ½ cup peanuts, toasted
  • ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Lightly grease a 9 1/2-inch round fluted tart pan with a removable bottom. If you don’t have a pan with a removable bottom you could line a 8-inch square cake pan with aluminum foil, leaving an overhang of foil on two opposite sides so you can easily lift the shortbread out of the pan.
  2. In a small saucepan over medium melt the butter and continue to cook until it caramelizes and emits a nutty, butterscotch aroma. You will notice brown flecks in the bottom of the pan as the butter deepens in color. Be careful not to burn the butter. Remove from the heat.
  3. In a medium bowl, combine the melted butter with the brown sugar, vanilla and salt. Add the flour and mix until incorporated. Spread the dough evenly in the prepared pan. Let stand for at least 2 hours or preferably overnight. (Do not refrigerate)
  4. Preheat oven to 300°F.
  5. Bake the shortbread for 45 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven. Put the dulce de leche on top. If it doesn’t spread easily, stick it back in the oven for a few minutes to melt it a little bit. Spread it all over the tart, covering the whole thing. Refrigerate until needed.
  6. Heat a saute pan on low. Sprinkle on the white sugar and let it heat without stirring until the sugar begins to melt. Do not stir, but swirl the pan around gently until the sugar is completely melted. Toss in the toasted nuts and sprinkle with a bit of salt if desired. Place on a greased plate or marble counter top until the nuts have hardened. Once they have, chop them up into small pieces. Sprinkle them onto the tart, pressing in slightly.
  7. Place your chocolate into a microwaveable bowl. Heat on high for 45 seconds, stir. Heat at 15-second intervals, stirring in between, until chocolate is completely melted. Drizzle on top of tart.

Keywords: brown butter, pecans, caramel, dulce de leche, tart, dessert

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  1. Corrine says

    January 9, 2011 at 5:40 pm

    YUMMY! Browned butter is one of my favourite things

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  2. Victoria (District Chocoholic) says

    January 10, 2011 at 9:34 am

    This looks so decadent, and almost foolproof if you can manage the shortbread. Brilliant!

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  3. Mia Summer Rose says

    February 28, 2011 at 10:31 am

    Hiii Rachel !
    U have a pretty blog with my fav colors , pink and i like purple only coz it looks good on pink:-)
    Ur bakes are sooo wonderful and cute too, jus like u!
    happy to find ur space in blogosphere!

    Reply
  4. Karissa says

    April 24, 2011 at 8:42 pm

    Love it, your blog just has the most delicious looking recipes–and they all are things that I would definitely want to make and things I crave. This recipe is a must try for me! My boyfriend loooves dulce de leche, and I looove browned butter (it just makes everything taste better). Browned butter shortbread? Great idea. Topping all of this decadence with candied nuts and chocolate? Genius! I linked you in my blogroll, I’ll def be visiting again!

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