TWD: Brioche Plum Tart

This week's Tuesdays with Dorie is Brioche Plum Tart chosen by Denise of Chez Us. I have never made Brioche, but it is on my list of things to make in my lifetime. And we love plums so I was pretty happy with this choice. I didn't know if I would be able to find plum jam and figured if I couldn't I would get something else like peach or strawberry or mixed berry and go from there. But surprisingly, I found some plum jam at Meijer.


This calls for a 9" tart pan, and I only have mini ones and an 11" pan and since I was bringing this to a baptism party, I figured go bigger. So I used more jam, and had no problems making the brioche part work. I used WAY less plums. So I don't know if Meijer has gigantic plums or what, but I only used like 6 I think. Which pleased TJ since he wanted to eat the rest of them.


The brioche part was really simple to make. I made it on Friday afternoon and left it in the fridge overnight. Saturday morning I put it in the pan, cut up the plums and then baked it. It was so easy! I did tent mine a few minutes early based on what others had reported. And if I remember correctly, I even cut short the time after I tented it because it was bubbling over (thank goodness I had it on a cookie sheet!)


I had a piece of this, but the plums were a little tart for me. I think if they had been sweeter or I had used a sweeter fruit it would have been better. When I left the party, it was about half gone, so people did try it and like it!