GRAPE FLAN

Preheat your oven to 200deg C . Line a lightly greased 20 cm flan dish with 1 sheet of thawed shortcrust pastry , trim the edge and blind bake ( line the pastry with baking paper and fill with uncooked rice ) in the preheated oven . Remove the paper and rice . Reduce the oven temperature to 180 deg C and bake the flan foe another 20 minutes or until the pastry is a light golden . Remove the pastry and cool . To make the filling beat 250gm of cream cheese untilsoft . Mix in 2 tbs of lemon curd ( if you have some home made preserve is best , if not use store bought lemon curd ) and 1 tbs of icing sugar . Spread the cream cheese mixture over the base of the pastry case . Separate the grapes from the stems and cut in half vertically . Arange the grapes in a circular pattern over the cream cheese mixture . Now prepare a glaze heat 3 tbs of apricot jam and 1 tbs and 1 dsp of water in a saucepan , stirring until the jam melts . Stir in 1 dsp of apera and cool slightly . Brush over grapes . Refrigerate till you are ready to serve .