

The toppings are caramelized onions and cuts of ham. And since it’s topped with gruyere, it brings the flavor profile together in a way that feels kind of fancy.

It’s creamy with a bit of sourness to it, like an aged cheese, and it really stands out. The sauce here is actually a crème fraîche, and it’s an astonishingly good pairing with this crust. It’s good stuff, and it works wonders for the pizza (ahem, tarte). This has a warm, wheaty flavor and a lovely soft-yet-crispy consistency. One of the standout features of the Tarte aux Champignons was the pastry-like crust, and that’s put to great use here as well. Also, we should point out that we gave ours a few extra minutes (about 12 in total), so that number might be a little overly optimistic. We’re used to frozen pizzas taking twice that long (though we keep having to remind ourselves this isn’t a pizza it’s a tarte). It just requires eight to ten minutes in the oven on a baking sheet. We have a feeling we’ll see this with a Trader Joe’s logo on the box at some point (as was the case with the Tarte aux Champignons), though we haven’t seen that yet. Today, we’re checking out the Maître Pierre Tarte d’Alsace Flatbread Pizza, which is sold at Trader Joe’s. So it makes sense that we’d later find a Maître Pierre product in the freezer aisle at Trader Joe’s. What we learned was that this tarte was actually a product by the French brand Maître Pierre. No, the discovery wasn’t the fact that we couldn’t resist calling it a pizza over and over again, though we did learn that as well. We recently checked out the Trader Joe’s Tarte aux Champignons Flatbread, and we made a startling discovery.
