Raspberry Passion Fruit Mousse Tart

A couple days ago, I went to a lovely french-speaking meetup here in Toronto in a great pastry shop to talk about life and eat a few Galette des Rois slices. In a certain part of the conversation, one of the ladies mentioned that she was going to make a roadtrip from Nova Scotia to British Columbia in the weeks to come.

I don't expect you to know geography pretty well, but that basically means that she would cross Canada from west to east. If you happened to look at the maps recently, this is pretty much a HUGE trip. I couldn't feel more excited for her, but it happened to me that I know very little of Canada myself.

If you've been around here for sometime, you'll know that I'm quite the traveller and lived in a few countries in the past few years.
Even though I consider myself to have travelled quite a lot in my home country, Brazil, I didn't travel as much in the other places I've lived: Russia, France and now, Canada.

Trying now to fix this little problem I have, last weekend I took a short weekend trip to Montréal.
I was particularly excited to go to Québec for lots and lots of reasons, but eating there was definitely in the top of my list.

I had a sublime Kouign Amann (you probably know I love it by now), lots of no-cheese Poutine and a few wonderful pastries as well. A few too many, I'm afraid to say.

The store I've been is the real deal, French pastries at its best. And while there, I've ordered a raspberry-passion fruit tart very, very close to the one I made at school last June that made me feel a couple flashbacks here and there. Oh dear!

A couple weeks ago I was taking some pictures for my personal portfolio and I decided to make a version of this tart, but with some raspberry mousse on top. The combination of passion fruit and raspberry is so perfect, I don't know why I never tried this before. Passion fruit is quite popular in Brazil as you can imagine, but it's always paired with some kind of chocolate. I would never think about having it with raspberries, but I'm happy some people managed to pull this off.

I have to say the tart was absolutely delicious, and despite looking all-so-fancy, it is not too much trouble to make it in fact. You will need to plan in advance and make it in several small steps of course (or have a powerful freezer, which I don't have), but with basic pastry skills you can pull this out without too many issues.

You may feel a little bit scared to try it, since it has all these layers and the chocolate decoration on top, but… worst case scenario? You try to make it, it doesn't look as fancy but it will still taste AMAZINGLY. So don't worry about that.