TARTE AUX POMMES
 
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You will need a 22cm (9inch) tart tin. The prep time includes chilling the pastry.
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Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
  • Pastry
  • 180g Flour
  • 90g Unsalted butter
  • 2 Dessertspoons icing sugar
  • 2 egg yolks
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  • Filling
  • 900g Cooking apples (about 3 large apples)
  • 200g vanilla sugar
  • 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out
Instructions
  1. Peel and chop half the apples, place in a saucepan with the vanilla pod and seeds and 120g of the vanilla sugar.
  2. Cook on a low heat until soft and almost pureed.
  3. Leave to cool while you make the pastry.
  4. Put the icing sugar, flour and butter in a food processor and blitz together.
  5. Add the eggs yolks and whizz until pastry is just forming a ball.
  6. Wrap and chill for about an hour.
  7. Preheat the oven to 200c
  8. When the apple puree is cold roll out the pastry and put in the tin.
  9. Put the puree in the bottom
  10. Peel and thinly slice the remaining apple and arrange as you wish on the puree.
  11. Bake for 15 minutes.
  12. Sprinkle over the remaining sugar and cook for a further 20 minutes.
  13. It looks nice if some of the apple is just catching on the edge.
  14. Serve warm or cold.
Recipe by The Eating Tree at http://www.theeatingtree.com/2015/01/24/tarte-aux-pommes/