Why: I used another game night as an excuse to bake. Little secret about me, I love love LOVE 2 things; donuts and marzipan. Almond paste, marzipan .. I'll take what I can get, however I can get it. I've made the terrible mistake of finding a local bakery that makes a HUGE marzipan danish and I have day dreamed about it every single day. With my almond paste craving running at full speed I decided to make an almond pear torte. How fancy.
What: I made this recipe, almost exactly as is (slight change in baking times) except I added a tiny bit of almond extract to the almond paste. I also poached the pears with a vanilla bean but you couldn't tell the difference. Isn't it a little surprising that mine isn't as lovely as the picture on the recipe? Ha! The verdict? Flop! I wanted a super sweet almond flavor with a flakey pastry crust. What I ended up with was a mild flavored filling on a shortbread crust. It wasn't disgusting or even horrible but it wasn't what I was craving. One person at the game night claimed to like it but then quickly refused to take some home, aha!, the easiest tell of someone who is trying to be nice. Back to the drawing board for this idea.
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