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French Apple Tart. This is a wonderful dessert, best served chilled with some whipped cream and a nice cup of tea!
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French Apple Tart
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
45 mins
 
Servings: 6
Ingredients
  • 1 inch ready baked or store bought 9 pie crust. see below if you would like to make your own
  • 4 inch Granny Smith apples peeled and sliced into 1 thick pieces
  • 2 tbs castor or regular sugar
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 ¼ cups applesauce see below if you would like to make your own
  • ¼ cup apricot jam mixed with 1 tbs hot water
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 200C / 400 F. Butter a 8-9 inch tart tin.
  2. If making your own pastry, roll pastry and line it in the tin. With a fork, prick the base. Put parchment or foil with pie weights or dried beans and bake the pastry for 20 minutes. Remove dried beans continue baking another 10 minutes if the base is still pale. Let cool when done.
  3. Meanwhile, put apple slices, sugar and cinnamon in a pan and cook for 3-5 minutes until slightly cooked. Remove from heat and let cool.
  4. Use the apricot jam mixture to brush the base of the cooled pastry. Put the apple sauce into the baked shell and spread it evenly. Arrange the cooled apple slices all around, overlapping each other.
  5. Bake tart for 25-30 minutes until apples are soft. At this stage, you can brush the tart with more of the apricot jam mixture and put back in the oven at 240 C / 475 F for 5 minutes till the apples slightly brown on the edges. Brush with more jam when it's done.
  6. Allow to completely cool and serve in slices on it's own or with some whipped cream. Delicious!