Tart shell
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, cut in small pieces
about 1/4 cup ice water
Stir together flour and salt.
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, cut in small pieces
about 1/4 cup ice water
Stir together flour and salt.
Cut butter into small pieces and add to flour mixture.
Using a pastry blender, mix the flour and butter until it is in small crumbs.
Stir in half the water gently, mixing just until a dough forms. Add the remaining water only if needed.
Pat into a disk and refrigerate.
Filling
2 pounds Golden Delicious apples
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
a large pinch of cinnamon
1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs
juice of one lemon
Peel and core the apples. Cut into thin slices.
Filling
2 pounds Golden Delicious apples
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon flour
a large pinch of cinnamon
1/2 cup fresh breadcrumbs
juice of one lemon
Peel and core the apples. Cut into thin slices.
Put in a large saucepan and drizzle with lemon juice.
Add sugar, flour, cinnamon and breadcrumbs.
Add a tablespoon of water and put on medium heat.
Cook, stirring occasionally, until apples are easy to mash with a potato masher.
Mash apples until nearly smooth.
Preheat the oven to 400 F.
Roll the tart dough out to 1/8" thickness and press into a 9" tart pan. Line with parchment and pie weights and bake for about 20 minutes, or until edges are golden brown.
Remover from the oven and turn the heat down to 375 F.
When the tart shell is cool, spoon the apple puree into it and smooth evenly.
Topping
2 Granny Smith apples
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1-2 tablespoons of butter, melted
1 tablespoon of sugar
Peel and core the apples and finely slice them.
Drizzle lemon juice over them to prevent them from browning.
Arrange the apples in a circle over the purée. The slices should overlap each other slightly.
Cut a round piece from one slice to go in the center.
Bake the tart for about 30 minutes. When the edges of the apples have started to brown, take it out of the oven and transfer to a cooling rack.
14 comments:
How beautiful! I have never made a tart yet. This one looks so impressive.
I have been dying to make one of these lately. This is SO gorgeous!
beautiful!
It looks like it belongs in a fancy French bakery window display! Awesome job.
I prefer tarts over pie any day! This tart is gorgeous!
Well, even if you think it takes no artistic skill, it still takes patience and attention to detail! It looks beautiful!
That is so pretty and fancy-looking. What an impressive dessert!
You give yourself too little credit - this is beautiful because of you, it's not a given.
oh my gosh -- this is beautiful! really gorgeous. :)
That is beautiful!!!
Stunning. Seriously, with the patience involved in making such a tart, that's *almost* too pretty to eat!
my tart didn't look as nice as yours, but i had the same idea for thanksgiving. it looked so impressive yet wasn't very hard to make!
yours looks so yummy!
Sooo pretty...takes a lot of patience to make something like that! Looks great!
Cate, this is also one of my favorite desserts! Your tart looks beautiful!
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