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How To Make Easily Make An Elegant Apple Tart

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This article is written by a student writer from the Spoon University at U Penn chapter.

Apples are my favorite fruit for dessert. Comforting, homey and incredibly satisfying, apples contain the perfect combination of sweetness and tang and there is no limit to how you can eat them. There’s apple pie, Tarte Tatin, turnovers and galettes, and serving them baked, raw or caramelized are great options as well. Yet my preferred method will always be an apple tart. What is it? Thinly sliced apples coated in sugar and cinnamon on flaky puff pastry. This dessert combines lightness (or the illusion of lightness… wait until you see how much butter actually goes into puff pastry), elegance, and a non-cloying sweetness that will take you all the way to apple heaven. It’s also ridiculously easy to make, provided you use store-bought puff pastry.

Take a look at it in all its glory. How do you like them apples? (I couldn’t resist).

Of course, before you go on your merry way to sampling the pinnacle of apple desserts, you need the essential ingredient that differentiates this dessert from a Tarte Tatin or a pie: puff pastry. Puff pastry is a dough that sandwiches butter in between layers of dough, and it can take almost three hours to make. Think of a katana but for pastries. Because I am obsessed with this pastry (and somehow have the time to spare), I make it from scratch, but I would suggest buying it frozen from the supermarket.

Now, onto the recipe.

How to Make Easily Make an Elegant Apple Tart

Difficulty:BeginnerPrep time: 25 minutesCook time: 45 minutesTotal time:1 hour 10 minutesServings:8 servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Peel and core the apples. Slice them finely.
  2. Preheat the oven to 370°F.
  3. Combine the brown sugar, almond flour, and cinnamon. Spread ¾ of the mixture on the bottom of the puff pastry. Arrange the apple slices on the uncooked pastry, nestling each slice against one another
  4. Melt butter (ok to use a microwave). Brush or drizzle butter onto the apple slices. Sprinkle remaining mixture of brown sugar, almond flour, and cinnamon. Bake in the top half of the oven for 45 minutes
  5. When the tart is finished, dust it with confectioner’s sugar. Set to broil for 2 minutes. Whip cream with cinnamon and honey till stiff.
Keywords:Fruit, Vegetarian