Quick but Tantalising Apple Tarts
- flour, for dusting
- 250 g premade puff pastry, thawed
- 1 teaspoon cooking oil
- 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon caster sugar
- 4 medium apples
- 2 tablespoons icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 150 g whipping cream
- 2 -3 tablespoons whiskey or 2 -3 tablespoons calvados (optional)
- cinnamon-sugar mixture (optional)
- Preheat the oven to 475 F or 240 degrees C.
- Dust a flat surface with flour and roll out the puff pastry very thinly.
- Cut out four circles, using a saucer as a guide.
- Sprinkle a little water on an oiled baking sheet, and lay out the circles of pastry.
- Lightly prick the pastry all over with the tips of a fork to stop it rising as it cooks and pushing off the apples.
- Squeeze the lemon juice into a mixing bowl and stir in the caster sugar.
- Peel, core and slice the apples into thin segments.
- As you work, place them in the sweetened lemon juice to keep them from browning.
- Cover the pastry with the apple slices in overlapping circles.
- Then sprinkle icing sugar over each tart and dot with butter.
- Place the baking sheet in the oven and cook for 10 minutes or until the pastry is crisp and golden and the apples are tender and scorched in places.
- Serve hot, warm or cold with the cream, whipped, if you like, with whisky.
- To do this in true French style, use calvados.
- Another impressive way to serve this dish (although you'll need more liquor than this recipe calls for) is to sprinkle a cinnamon/sugar mixture over the tart just before serving.
- Then, take the tart to the table, pour the calvados over the entire face of the tart and light with a match.
- Aside from wowing everyone with your talent, the flames will carmelise the cinnamon/sugar mixture, adding a crunchy topping.
- Yum!
flour, premade puff pastry, cooking oil, lemon, caster sugar, apples, icing sugar, butter, whipping cream, whiskey, cinnamonsugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/quick-but-tantalising-apple-tarts-43846 (may not work)