Ingredients

  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/8 teaspoon sugar
  • Pinch of salt
  • 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) chilled unsalted butter, cut into pieces
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons (about) ice water
  • 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons plus 4 1/2 tablespoons sugar
  • 8 large apricots, halved, pitted
  • 1 cup pitted cherries (about 6 ounces) or frozen, thawed
  • 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, melted, cooled
  • Vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt

Method

  • Stir flour, 1/8 teaspoon sugar and salt in bowl to blend.
  • Add butter; rub in with fingertips until coarse meal forms.
  • Mix in enough water by tablespoons until clumps form.
  • Gather into ball; flatten into disk.
  • Wrap in plastic; chill at least 1 hour and up to 2 days.
  • Preheat oven to 400F.
  • Line baking sheet with parchment.
  • Roll out dough on floured surface to 11-inch round.
  • Transfer to prepared baking sheet.
  • Mix flour and 2 teaspoons sugar in bowl.
  • Sprinkle over crust, leaving 1 1/2-inch border.
  • Place apricots cut side down on crust, placing close together and leaving 1-1/2 inch border at outer edge.
  • Scatter cherries over apricots.
  • Top with 4 tablespoons sugar.
  • Fold pastry edges up around apricots, pressing against apricots to form scalloped border.
  • Brush crust with butter; sprinkle with 1/2 tablespoon sugar.
  • Bake until crust is golden and fruit is tender (some juices from fruit will leak onto parchment), about 1 hour.
  • Remove from oven.
  • Using pastry brush, brush tart with juices on parchment.
  • Gently slide parchment with tart onto rack.
  • Carefully run long knife under tart to loosen (crust is fragile).
  • Cool on parchment until lukewarm.
  • Slide 9-inch-diameter tart pan bottom under tart, then place tart on platter.
  • Serve with ice cream or yogurt.