Tarte aux Pommes
A mouthwatering French Apple Tart Recipe that is a sensational, traditional French dessert, and so easy to make at home. It is versatile as it is just as good eaten hot or cold. Although this is one of the simplest fruit pastry dessert dishes, it is among the best in taste and comfort!
Try these apple tart recipes too: Caramelized Apple Tart Recipe and Normandy Apple Tart. Too many apples are never a thing here!
About French Apple Tart Recipe & Why We Love It
The French home cook, of course, makes the most of all the fruit and vegetables available all year round.
Apples are plentiful all year round nowadays, but of course, if you make the most of local ones when in season, you will have the most fruitful of puddings!
A good standby for family meals or for entertaining your friends.
One of our favorite French baked apple dessert recipes, as I am sure it will be yours too, once you have tried it.
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French Apple Tart Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 pastry shell partially cooked, which is made from the sucrée pastry, make a large one for this recipe.
- 2 lb cooking apples
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅛ cup butter
- Grated rind of 1 orange
- 2 tablespoon apricot preserve apricot jam
- 2 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Peel, core and thinly slice the apples. (Reserve 2 apples for decorating the top)
- Cook the sliced apples slowly in a heavy bottomed pan with 1 tablespoon of water until tender but not pureed.
- Add the sugar, butter and orange rind.
- Continue to cook slowly until reduced to a thick purée.
- Allow to cool.
- Peel, core and thinly slice the 2 apples which you reserved for the top.
- Place the cooked apples in the partly cooked pastry shell.
- Arrange the sliced apples on the top of the puree, completely covering the surface.
- Bake in a moderately heated oven at 400°F/200°C/Gas 6 for about 25 minutes until the pastry is golden brown and the apples have just begun to brown.
- Heat the apricot preserve with the water and lemon juice, gently, until it forms a syrup.
- Press the apricot syrup through a sieve and spoon over the tart to form a glaze.
- This apple tart recipe is delicious hot or cold and is really good served with fresh cream, ice cream, creme fraiche, custard or simply on its own.
Notes
- You can use a ready-made crust or make your own.
- When the pie is nearing the end of its baking time, keep watch (without opening the oven door) on the crust so that it doesn't get too dark. If it is, lay a strip of foil over the pie crust edge.
- Use a baking sheet under the pie to prevent fruit juice from leaking onto the oven floor. It is easier to wash a baking sheet than the bottom of your oven.
Loved it, tweaked it, or not your "cup of tea"... I’d really love to hear how it went for you.