If you are after a quick dessert or afternoon tea treat, you can’t go past this easy apple tart. Apples are in season at the moment and are cheap and plentiful. This apple tart is easy to make using ready made shortcrust pastry sheets. It is filled with an almond frangipane and topped with thinly sliced apples. We served it sprinkled with icing sugar with a dollop of cream. Yummm…
We love autumn – it is the perfect weather to enjoy tarts, pies, and other baked desserts. We love using our doiley cake server (Pelle À Tarte) that we bought in France last year.
Easy Apple Tart
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This easy apple tart is made with ready made shortcrust pastry sheets, filled with almond frangipane, and topped with slices of apple.
Author: Lisa, A Spoonful of Sugar
Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 2 sheets frozen shortcrust pastry
- 90g butter, softened
- ½ cup caster sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup almond meal
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 2 small granny smiths apples, peeled, cored, thinly sliced
- Extra 10g butter, melted
- Icing sugar (powdered sugar) for dusting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 C f. Line a 11cm x 34cm loose-based rectangular fluted tart pan with pastry. Trim edges. Prick base all over with a fork. Place on a baking tray. Line pastry with baking paper. Fill with pastry weights.
- Bake pastry shell for 10 minutes. Remove pastry weights. Bake for another 10 minutes or until pastry is golden.
- Use an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until just combined. Stir in almond and flour. Spoon almond mixture into pastry case and smooth top. Arrange apple on top, overlapping slices slightly.Brush melted butter over apple.
- Bake tart for 35 minutes or until golden. Cool in pan. Serve dusted with icing sugar.
Check out some of our other apple recipes.
Looks yummy and pretty!
Thanks Emma. We love apple desserts.
It looks wonderful… and as usual your photography is spectacular! Yum!
Thanks Lisa 🙂
I love the way this dessert looks and WANT to make it but, Okay, I guess I’m dumb… but what is frozen shortcrust pastry?
In Australia, you can buy frozen sheets of pastry to line your pie dish. Alternatively you can use your own method of making pastry. I am pretty sure when I lived in the USA you could buy ready made pastry or a pie shell?