Desserts/ Fruits/ Sweet Snacks

Alsatian Apple Tart

Alsatian or from Normandy, or even from Blois where I live 😉 , you will find the apple tart I’m about to introduce to you. With a few changes here and there maybe, but it will always be a delight!

The apple tart is probably one of the most famous pastries and the most basic. You’ll find it in any bakery or pastry shop in France. But to bake a good one at home requires to follow one or two advices.

First you need a good pastry: when your recipe is made with so little ingredients, you absolutely need all of them to be super good. Shortcrust, shortbread or puff pastry, the 3 options will work perfectly fine. I would go for shortcrust pastry, but that’s my taste…

My second advice is to choose the appropriate variety of apples: some are much better in tarts (or more generally baked or cooked). To mention just a few: Golden, Gala, Braeburn, Jonagold, Elstar …

Finally, if you take your time to put your apple slices precisely on the pastry you will get a nice visual, and it has its importance in the way we appreciate the food we eat. I use a mandoline slicer to have nice slices of apple. And for an easy unmold, I would go for a round perforated tart ring diameter 28 cm.

Shall we start now? The recipe, Chef!

Alsatian Apple Tart

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Serves: 8-10 Difficulty: Easy Price: $
Cooking Time: 1 hour

Ingredients

  • 1 pastry
  • 4 or 5 apples
  • 1 egg
  • 40 g sugar
  • 10 cl cream
  • 10 g of vanilla sugar (optional)
  • A bit of quince jelly (optional)

Instructions

1

Preheat your oven at 220 degrees.

2

Peel and cut your apples in slices.

3

Spread the pastry and place it in your buttered mold.

4

Place your apple slices on the pastry and bake for 25 minutes.

5

During that time, mix the egg and sugar until you get an homogeneous (but non foamy) mixture.

6

Add the cream to the egg and sugar.

7

After 25 minutes, remove the mold from the oven, pour the cream/egg/sugar on the apple slices and put the tart back in the oven for 15 more minutes.

8

At the end of the baking, you can spread some quince jelly on the warm tart to give a shiny look.

9

Cool down on a grid.

Notes

You can add almond powder or cinnamon powder to the egg/sugar/cream mixture.

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