Raspberry chia seed jam and a sweet almond paste make this low carb, gluten-free Raspberry Frangipane Tart a healthy and indulgent dessert.
I’ve always loved cooking, but food blogging affords me a glimpse into a culinary world I heretofore didn’t know existed. I’ve read plenty of cookbooks and cooking magazines, watched hours of cooking television, read essays by professional food writers. All of which is lovely and informative and inspiring. But discovering food blogs was like walking through the wardrobe into Narnia. Getting real peeks into the lives of home cooks, finding out what they make day to day, the tried and true recipes they use, the experiments they try, their triumphs, their failures, was a glorious revelation. Self-publishing on the internet has allowed us all a greater access into all things culinary, and many of these cooks, while they may lack a popular cooking show/trendy restaurant/Michelin star, are extraordinarily talented people. I have learned so much from so many of them.
Like so many things in the culinary world, frangipane tarts go by a few other names as well. In this case, Bakewell Tarts appear to be just about the same thing as Frangipane Tarts. I’ve been eyeing both on many blogs, and laughed to see my friend Gerry of Foodness Gracious post a version with cranberries and white chocolate (his was gluten-y and sugar-y), a few days after I created mine. But I was apparently in no rush to post these. I’ve been sitting on them for over 2 months now and now seems the perfect time.
Raspberry Frangipane Tarts – Low Carb and Gluten-Free
Raspberry chia seed jam and a sweet almond paste make this low carb, gluten-free Raspberry Frangipane Tart a healthy and indulgent dessert.
Ingredients
Crust
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour
- 1/3 cup Swerve Sweetener
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
- 1 large egg white
Filling
- 1/4 cup Raspberry Chia Seed Jam
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/3 cup Swerve Sweetener
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tsp almond extract
- 2 tbsp slices almonds
Instructions
- For the crust, preheat oven to 325F and grease 4 4-inch tart pans with removable bottoms. Alternatively, you can do this in one large 9-inch tart pan with removable bottom.
- In food processor, combine almond flour, sweetener, and salt. Pulse a few times to combine. Sprinkle butter over top and pulse until mixture resembles fine crumbs.
- Transfer to a bowl and stir in egg white until dough comes together. Divide evenly among prepared tart pans and press into bottom and up sides.
- Prick bottoms all over with a fork and bake 10 minutes. Remove and let cool 15 minutes.
- For filling, spread tart bottoms with 1 tablespoon of jam each.
- In food processor, combine almond flour, softened butter, sweetener, egg, egg yolk and almond extract. Process on low until smooth and creamy.
- Divide mixture between tarts and spread over jam. Sprinkle with sliced almonds.
- Bake 30 minutes or until puffed and set. If your crusts are browning too quickly, cover with foil while continuing to bake.
- Remove and let cool.
Recipe Notes
Serves 8. Each serving has 10 g of carbs and 5 g of fiber. Total NET CARBS = 5 g.
Per serving: 321 Calories; 30g Fat (78.1% calories from fat); 9g Protein; 10g Carbohydrate; 5g Dietary Fiber; 84mg Cholesterol; 206mg Sodium
I would use the new pans to cook dinner for my family or an omelet breakfast for my self- depending on when they arrive 😀
This looks fabulous. Love raspberry and almonds together.
I couldn’t agree more – I’ve learned so much since I started my food blog over 3 years ago. It’s been a great way to expand my cooking repertoire so fun meeting other foodies like myself. Your frangipane tarts were worth waiting for – they’re beautiful!
We’re starting low carb living this week. This will be a fantastic treat!
Those tarts are seriously absolutely beautiful!!
I would make a pot of pho with the Pasta Zero noodles. 🙂
All I can say is great minds…right? I bet yours is fantastic! Thanks for the mention 🙂
These looks wonderful – raspberry and almonds are a match made in heaven 🙂
I would make sausage jambalaya!
I love your recipes!! Thank you for this blog and your facebook site!!
Looks so nummy! Love Raspberry!
My mouth is watering already!!!!!!!!!!!!
Frangipane tarts have been on my list for a while now. Love the pictures!
Can this be done as one large tart and not small ones? It looks divine!!!!!
I am sure it can!
Bone broth in my stock pot….
I would make a pot of vegetarian chili!
Must try these! Lived in the UK for three years and bakewell tarts are major yum!
Looks fantastic!
Braised cabbage and pork — yumm!
Would love to cook up some soup for this cold day!
These look gorgeous!
These tarts look amazing!! And so do the pots and pans!
IT’S WINTER! THE PAN SET IS PERFECT FOR MAKING A CHILI OR A BIG POT OF SOUP WITH ALL SORTS OF FRESH HERBS, CHICKEN, AND VEGGIES, INCLUDING SAUTEED ONIONS & CELERY.
THEN! YOUR LOVELY TART FOR DESSERT! I wouldn’t have tried a tart like this, but after reading your blog and looking over the recipe, I know I could make this. Thank you for all your work. I really enjoy your blog and it’s my go-to for low-carb, healthy recipes!
i would make an omelet.
something yummy 🙂
I would try to make chicken marsala
It is winter, so soup is my go to meal. Soup’s on in my new cookware, maybe?
I use frangipane in my Gallette des Rois. I can make the frangipane low-carb, but I’m not sure what to do for the puff pastry.
What a great recipe and contest!! First thing I would make if I won the pans is probably a big cabbage & onion stir fry and maybe some of our favorite Mexican Hash!
The Frangipane recipe looks amazingly delicious and it’s probably the first thing I would try making if I won the Calphalon pan set! =) That or our favorite cheddar broccoli soup recipe!
Limiting myself to a half a tart serving will require all the discipline I can muster! This is on my to-do list – after I finish eating the other desserts you’ve successfully allowed me to put in my freezer!
Have never heard of frangipane, but the look lovely – and delicious! I am looking forward to trying them.
soup and spinach with lemon and some chicken curry !
I make bacon and omelettes first with these pans.
Carolyn, I am so glad you made an almond paste recipe. I work in Solvang, CA, A Danish town and have come to love almond paste. This recipe looks delicious and easy, and low-carb and gluten-free. Thank you!
I am planning on trying low carb marzipan too! This would be good in cakes and other baked goods too.
Playing catch-up here. Oh yay! I have contemplated working on lc frangipane, almond paste, and marzipan for quite a while now, but YOU have actually figured out the frangipane (and perhaps now the marzipan too). Once again, you are my low-carb guru, especially for the things that are harder to figure out and perfect. Thanks so much!
Thanks so much, Jean!
I would make minestrone soup.
I would make red sauce.
If I won the cookware I would make a fresh, Italian inspired meal for my friends…something summery to take us out of the winter doldrums!
I would LOVE to win this and those are some pretty tarts. They look really yummy.
New pans would replace my wedding set from 20 years ago. It is about time! I would make some amazing burgers!
Would love to win!
I’d make chicken fried chicken, mashed potatoes, green beans, & corn on the cob! Nothing like good ol comfort food to break them in right 🙂
Would love to make some shrimp scampi and some of those tarts.
Something for my family of 10, probably eggs or burgers!
Ohhhh, frangipane! Isn’t that just a fun word to say? I do love them, but then again, I looooove almond paste and marzipan so much. So, so much. I haven’t really ventured into the world of chia seeds *too* much, but I do need to make some better jam options for my daughter. And myself. I think most jam is just too sweet (unless served on a scone with some clotted cream. Preferably while in Britain).
I would make bread. There is a recipe I have been wanting to make. You mix the ingredients and let it sit for 8-12 hours and bake it in the same pan you mixed it in. Very artisan. The deep skillet looks to be perfect for the recipe!
I’d make dinner first with whatever veggies and proteins I have on hand.
In honor of you and your website that is helping me SO much with a major transformation in my life….I would make any one of your fabulous recipes. (Which isn’t much of a stretch, since I’m using so many of them these days) Thank you for the opportunity, my old cookware is pathetic.
I would probably make breakfast…sausage and fried eggs. Then I might go crazy and make pancakes. 😉
Love the giveaway!!
I’d make a yummy warm winter’s breakfast! Eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuits, pancakes…mmmm!
Some kind of stir fry – love Asian food.
ohhh these look so good – practice now – have perfection by 2/14 = practice practice practice…..
I’d make a big pot of chili!
Geez! I so need new ones. I’ve taken away all the metal cooking tools cuz the hubs ruins our cooking pots and pans! haha. Some how he still manages to….so I would love to make some soup, and some thai curry.
These pans look lovely! I would most likely make homemade fajitas, my family’s favorite for an evening meal or omelets for breakfast! YUM!
I cook so much on the stove. But I love to make the primal pancake at least once a week so I love a nice pan that can go from my stove to the oven!
I would probably make some zuppa toscana soup 🙂
I would make a big chicken/veggie stir fry to serve over zoodles.
So glad I found your blog 9 months ago when I started on low carb. Your recipes are fantastic and so creative. These tarts sound wonderful.
The tarts turned out fabulous! The crust looks so flaky yet the filling looks decadent!
I would use those pots to cook things like never before being a food blogger explorer!
I would make Spaghetti Sauce for all the Gluten Free pasta I stocked up on with coupons last month!
I cook every day and usually a new recipe so it is hard to say what the first thing I’d cook would be. Something new and scrumptious and low carb!
That looks amazing!
I would make some soup to go with this cold weather!
Making our food in these pans would be aswesome. I have a peice.
Love your blog! These tarts look delicious. Can’t wait to try! I have yet to fail (on taste at least… appearance, that’s another story) with one of your recipes.
If I won those pans the first thing I’d do is throw out my old crappy pans 🙂 … then make an omelette.
looks delicious
Cooking would be a pleasure using this set.
I would make eggs, with pulled pork on them and and and and andtoo many other choices. Smiles,Ruth
I would make a frittata, Mexican tortilla soup (sans tortilla!), and chicken in an olive, caper, garlic, onion and sun-dried tomato sauce… I think! But most likely, would peruse your recipes and try something new!
I learned in September that I have a dairy intolerance, among many other things. Making the transition away from my favourite cheeses and milk has been challenging and I couldn’t have done it without finding all sorts of fantastic blogs! After all, often only a few recipes in a cookbook are worthwhile. I would absolutely love to win this set of pots and pans from Calphalon! Cooking is my hobby, and the best way to get a good meal is to have the right equipment!
I would make spaghetti with pan seared pancetta and carbonara sauce.
I would make eggs…my favorite!!
The tarts look delicious ! And I would make a pot of warm soup for my family. It is freezing cold here in Iowa❄️⛄️❄️
I would pan fry some steak and carmelize some onions and mushrooms with garlic butter.
Oooh, can I come over for that meal?
Omelets would be the first thing I make!
Carolyn! Love the recipe, it looks amazing and love the action shot of the powdered swerve! Lovely 🙂
I’d make some chili!
Those tarts look amazing–I think you’ve outdone yourself!
For the Calphalon pans, I think I would make your pancakes in them!
Well, I wouldn’t make pancakes in ALL of them… 🙂
This looks so yummy…can’t wait to try. I really enjoy all of your recipes.
A fancy dinner for my family. Would love these pans.
Love this! I’d make my husband the most healthy, Paleo, gluten free, sugar free meal and your dessert!~
Ahh, these are beautiful! I would probably make some salmon,black bean and mushroom succotash and who knows what else. Endless possibilities ! 🙂
I would make omelets! I need new cookware!
Squeal! Can hardly wait to try this recipe. Thanks for doing all the work (research) for us 🙂
The first meal I would make, if I won, would most likely be for my parents. They rely on me to cook one or two meals a weekend, take to them, so that they have some good, healthy meals to eat. My mom has been asking for chicken and wild rice soup. That is probably what I would tackle first. Many thanks as I would love to win these! Kelly
I would probably make some chicken piccata and I would definitely have to make some veggie soup in the stock pot!
I would love some new pots… Mine are old, and warped. I’d love a new omelet pan my family loves those and a good pan makes all the difference!
The better question is what wouldn’t I make ?! Maybe a yummy chicken dish.
I make home cooked meals every night. Rarely use the microwave. The pans would be used for the next meal on the menu.
This tart is beautiful, Carolyn!
I would love to use the cookware to make my 50th birthday dinner at the end of the month
Dinner! And everything else, because I would toss out all my other cookware.
Beautiful cookware set. I was also wondering if you can make one large tart instead of mini?
Yes, I think it will work in a 9 inch tart pan.
I’ve been looking for new pans and these look fantastic!
Yes, I am wondering about which size pan to make one large tart also. Little tartlets are gorgeous of course, but there is also a place for a company tart…so many guests have different size servings in mind. My people (including me!) want as much as they can be allotted, but I notice that some guests actually ask for a smaller slice…go figure!
Did I specify what size for the large tart? 9 inches is pretty standard and I think this recipe would work well in that.
duh…sorry about that. I missed seeing the pan size in the recipe (and I have had coffee).
I also see that I should have indicated that I would use the pans in the contest for something…I would make your un-sweetened condensed milk for hello dolly squares.
I would make everything I could think of! 🙂
I love the flavor combination of raspberries and almonds. Would love to win the pans!
I’m going to try the tarts! Would like to win the cookware. 🙂
WOW! This looks so scrumptious! Just what I’d like to serve at a ladies luncheon. Thank you for this great recipe. And I hope to win the Calphalon too. 🙂
These look delicious and relatively easy to do. I love all your recipes- thank you! I would love to make some soup in the pots and some low carb crepes in the pan. YUM!
I would make Moroccan Chicken in these pots.
I’ve never had frangipane, but it looks delicious!
Cooking would be a pleasure using this set.
I would make eggs omelet …my favorite!!
I would cook a feast! and then make my family do the dishes after. HAHA.
The recipes on this site are so scrumptious. Although I eat a close to zero carb diet for 6 days out of the week and then carb load on one day. I do crave treats all week long, and these desserts keep me going. Thanks a lot.
I’d make spaghetti and meatballs
I would make chicken soup!
Orange chicken & fried faux rice
My first dish in my new pans would be fajitas, and the second would be cauliflower pepper-jack cheese soup (in two different pans, obviously). For right now I have to live between two houses, and I so miss having decent pans at my newer place.
I’d make a great veggie scramble with lots of cheese…and nothing would stick!
looks amazing and I could desperately use some new pans!
crack slaw 🙂
omelettes and chicken fried steaks
I would make everything cauliflower!! It’s my favorite!!
When making your recipes, may I substitute coconut flour for the almond flour?
Also, Can Xylitol be used in place of Swerve?
LOVE your website – so thankful!
Thank you!
Debbie
Coconut flour can never be subbed for almond flour at a 1:1 ratio and I don’t think it would work well in this recipe. I do have some specific coconut flour recipes, though.
Thank you for your response! How would I find coconut flour recipes on your website?
Thanks so much!
These look like great pans. I would use them for making omelet’s. I haven’t had new pans since I got married!
I would make some vegetable soup in that huge pot they offer.
Soup – tons of soup
mmmm, I think I would start by making a chicken stock with that nice big pot. and then, who knows? those tarts you gave us the recipe for look divine. you make things so easy for us. that is what I love about your blog.
Some stir-fried cabbage with fennel seeds sounds good!
My fav flavors…….stunning! Need a good omelet pan.
Love chia seeds. Anxious to try the recipe.
Poached lobster for dinner.
Then an omelet made in the left over butter for breakfast. I use left over lobster but there won’t be any. 🙂
I need new pots and pans so badly! Would be such a great gift.
I would prepare a nice dinner for my family.
I would make sweet potato has
I would make a large pot of soup with bone broth 🙂
I’d make soup…..it’s COLD here!
I really need a new set of pots and pans! Every thing I use to cook with is old and ready for the trash! Calphalon is a very good brand…would love to own some!
Yum!
The tarts and cookware are both beautiful
Looking forward to making the tarts!
ALL low carb goodies! Healthy stuff!
I’d cook something yummy for my family, maybe a stew, or skillet main course.
Oh I’d cook… dinner in them! 😉
Frittata,these pans would work well on egg dishes
I love these little tarts! They’re so fancy but not overly so. Just perfect. 🙂
Calphalon is an amazing product. Would to add it to my kitchen.
These tarts look amazing. I cannot wait to make them. Thank you for your continual search and study of the finer (healthier) foods for those of us that need a diet free of gluten, sugar, and benefit from fewer carbs. : )
I would make burnt cheese. It’s a great quick low carb snack and when cut into pieces can be used as chips!
Since I started a low-carb lifestyle, I am always looking for delicious desserts (which I miss the most). This looks fabulous.
I need all of these pots and pans to cook for a Mardi Gras feast! 🙂
Call me boring, but I would make 3 over-easy eggs. Love, love a perfect fried egg! And those look like they would fry eggs to perfection.
I am sure it would be something mexican inspired like tostadas! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would ask my hbuuy to teach me how to make omelettes..
I would make lasagna. I’ve been wanting to try the recipe I have for coconut flour noodles.
I would love to make a big pot of soup!
Yummy recipe! Hope to win these pans.
I would use these everyday for so many things, all in the name of keeping my family as healthy as possible. All natural, delicious, homemade food is the key to vitality!!
This recipe looks so wonderful and these pans look fantastic!
I would probably make a big batch of soup!
I would make some yummy spaghetti and meatballs
Probably our homemade pizza sauce, we make that a lot. And my girls have really started loving zucchini fries, so probably those as well. I eat eggs daily on the weekend, so that would be in there too! Thank you for the wonderful giveaway!
Carolyn — I baked this fabulous recipe this morning and it is cooling as I type. We are having a break from the super cold Kansas weather and after church will head to the lake and our favorite picnic spot — this tart and a thermos of coffee are going along! Thank you for all the wonderful baked goods YOU bring to our low carb home 🙂
Blessings!
Gail
Wow, a picnic! It’s not quite warm enough here, so I envy you!
I love having the nutritional info on recipes. Thank you for that!
Definitely trying this recipe! If I won these gorgeous pots and pans, the first thing I would make is a giant batch of my homemade chili – subbing chicken and adding carrots, it is delicious!
These look so good!! I love rasberries and almonds! I’m sure the first thing I’d cook in these would be dinner for my family 🙂
I would make my Gluten Free Pasta alla Carbonara with my own home made Gluten Free Pasta !! I love your site. I don’t have Diabetes, but I do have a skin condition called Vitiligo, which causes my skin to whiten in different areas on my body.
I’ve noticed that since I started eating Gluten Free, the condition has either stopped or slowed down considerably!
Thanks to you I can get great GF recipes, without compromising taste.
Oh and yes, I would love the Calphalon pans so that I can use them to make the wonderful recipes on your site
The first thing I’d make is a nice pan-full of fired eggs.
The first thing I’d make is a nice pan full of fired eggs.
If I won this set I would start by making a big batch of chili! Yum! Perfect for the chilly winter evenings!
Yum frangipane tarts…thank you! I would make a yummy stew or soup if I won…Thank you for the chance 🙂
I would make Hunter Chicken..one of our favorites
I honestly just want to make a good omelet that doesn’t stick to the pan. 🙂
I would make homemade vegetable soup!
a warm soup for this cold winter
i would make pancakes!
Fried chicken!
I would make chicken noodle soup!
If I won this it would be sent to my daughter who is studying to be a chef. She is in need of some cookware.
I would make some tacos
Can’t wait to try this!
You are such a genius. I didn’t even try to make today’s post – galette des rois à la frangipane – sugar free.
Bravo!
a good beef stew!
Up first would be a big pot of a creamy soup, cheeseburger, cauliflower or broccoli cheese soup I think.
Fried chicken!
I’ll make pancakes, and may be vegetables soup !
beef stew!
Soup and some steak meat !
Some eggs with spinach !! yummy breakfast !!
I would probably make spaghetti or some kind of soup
I would make some mulled wine to help me get through this never ending January.
I made the tart in one 9″ round tart pan. I had to bake the crust about 3 minutes more due to the size. The raspberry jam recipe is amazing. It is so much better than any store bought sugar free jam and I can see adding it to greek yogurt and to use as a topping for waffles or pancakes. Although we do not eat dessert often, this tart will be in the regular rotation of recipes when we do need a treat.
I would sear a nice, juicy rib-eye & whip up some creamed spinach if I won these awesome pans!
I’d make sea bass with lemon butter sauce!
I say yes to anything frangipane.
I would make some excellent soup!
chili
I have just successfully made the frangipani tart (as one large tart), ooh it was scrummy! I made my jam with raspberries, water, Splenda and xantham as I don’t have chia seeds. I’m not sure if I can get them here in the UK, but haven’t done any research as yet. Served the tart with extra thick double cream. This weekend my plan is to try ‘Nantucket Tart’ as I have named the salted chocolate caramel nutty tart, plus the scones. I am soooo looking forward to the weekend!
I bet chia will be available in the UK soon enough, it’s the latest “super food”. I love the name Nantucket Tart! 🙂
Decided to make Nantucket Tart this Weds for my mum’s 70th birthday. I’ll let you know how it goes!
OMG I can have pop-tarts again. I could almost cry. And this is so much better. I got to mush the raspberries myself and choose the butter and scooch the dough into all the little corners of the tart pan.
I managed OK for most of it but had a hard time smoothing out the frangipane without pushing the filling to the edges. I dumped all of it into the middle and applied a palette knife to it. Do you have advice on how to get it even? Perhaps my frangipane was thicker than yours, because I didn’t let it go long enough in the food processor.
Thank you so much, as always, for sharing. This is lovely.
Hi there
these look fantastic!! would it be the confectioners Swerve in this recipe? I am in Ireland and will need to order it online.
many thanks
Susan
No, just the granulated. I always specify if it’s powdered/confectioner’s.
many thanks! And my apologies, I am a new but enthusiastic visitor to your site!
No worries, just pointing out that tidbit!
one of my Canada Day desserts….can’t wait to try this