Easy Apple Tart
Easy Apple Tart
This simple apple tart works well whatever the season, as a pudding for a dinner party or just as something to accompany a morning coffee.
You can use any apples for this recipe, really. We often have a glut of cooking apples in the autumn months, which can work nicely although won’t keep their shape so well. I would suggest using eating apples if you are buying specifically, as they will look the nicest.
Easy Apple Tart
Ingredients
6 apples, sliced into even, thin pieces
320g puff pastry pack
1 tsp vanilla extract
3 tbsp caster sugar
50g butter
1-2 tbsp Apricot Jam
Method
Heat your oven to 180C/160C fan/Gas 4 and line a baking sheet with parchment.
Roll out the puff pastry into a rectangle, straightening the edges by trimming if necessary. Place the pastry onto the baking sheet.
Score a line, 2cm in, all the way around on the pastry so you have an indentation but without cutting all the way through. This outer rectangle will rise and the middle will be covered in the apples.
Arrange the apple slices over the middle rectangle and dot the vanilla extract, and then sprinkle the sugar, evenly over the surface.
Finally, dot the apples with butter and place into the oven for 15 minutes. After this time, check the tart - the outer pastry should be puffed up and golden, and the apples just soft. It might need a further five minutes if not quite there.
Remove from the oven and while cooling slightly, heat the apricot jam through in a small saucepan. Glaze the apples once this is nice and runny, using a brush.
