Ingredients:

For the frangipane:
1/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup slivered almonds, slightly toasted
6 tablespoons butterr
1 eggs
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1 1/2 tablespoons flour
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
6 fresh or canned apricot halves, pits removed
1/4 cup whole almonds, skin on
Confectioners' sugar, for garnish

Cooking Recipe:

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.
To make the frangipane, place the almonds and the sugar in a food processor and grind until sandy. Add the butter and continue mixing then add the egg, vanilla, and the flour and mix until smooth.
To make the Tart (like a small cake) , on a floured work surface pass your rolling pin over the pastry just to flatten any ridges.
Place it on a parchment paper lined sheet pan and cut out a 9-inch disk. Spread the almond frangipane in the center of the Tart (like a small cake) leaving a 1-inch border. Firmly place the apricot halves into the frangipane spacing them evenly around the tart. Dot the spaces between the apricots with the whole almonds.
Bake until golden brown on the top and puffy, about 30 to 40 minutes. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve.

Ingredients:

4 pieces parchment paper
4 bananas, each cut in half the longway and then in half the shortway
1 lemon, juiced
4 teaspoons butter
1/4 cup honey
2 teaspoons chopped pistachios
1 teaspoon orange rind, julienned
1/2 teaspoon ginger, peeled and minced

Cooking Recipe:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Fold the sheets of parchment in half and cut out large half circles along the crease, creating full circles folded in half. Unfold the circles and stuff them each with 4 pieces of banana and 1/4 of all the other ingredients. Fold the edges back together, creating a half-circle shaped pouch, and seal the edge by crimping and rolling it over itself or by stapling. Bake on a sheet pan for 3 to 4 minutes until well heated through. Cut the paper open at the table in front of your guests so they experience the fragrance of the ingredients.