Daring Bakers Challenge: Crostata

The 2010 November Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Simona of briciole. She chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ to make pasta frolla for a crostata. She used her own experience as a source, as well as information from Pellegrino Artusi’s Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well.

For this month’s challenge I decided to make my crostata as one of our desserts for Thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunately this year I wasn’t able to leave school for the holiday and actually had to work on Thanksgiving night. I am so lucky to only live a few hours away from my parents and my Mom and brother Aaron were able to come to me this year. My mom cooked a whole turkey and drove it to my house. I wanted to have something special to show them and knew this would be just the thing!

I made the crust (also called pasta frolla) using a little bit of lemon zest to taste and filled it with low-sugar strawberry preserves. For some extra flair I served it warm with whipped cream. Delicious!