Fresh Cherry Tart

Ingredients:

1 10-inch tart shell or use any pate sucre recipe.

1 lb fresh cherries (I'd use a tarter pie cherry actually)

3 large eggs

¾ cup heavy or whipping cream

1/3 cup sugar

2 tsp almond extract (or a little more if you desire a more almondy flavor)

1 ½ tbs grated lemon peel

¼ tsp salt

Method:

• Prepare and bake tart shell as directed. Cool. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  
• While tart shell is cooling, pit cherries.
  
• In a large bowl with mixer at low speed, beat eggs, heavy cream, sugar, almond extract, lemon peel, and salt until well blended.
  
• Place cherries in tart shell.
  
• Set pan on oven rack and pour egg mixture over cherries.
  
• Bake tart 30 minutes or until knife inserted in filling comes out clean.
  
• Cool tart slightly in pan on wire rack.
  
• Remove side of pan. Serve warm or refrigerate to serve cold later.