Apple-Brown Sugar Tart
Bake this pretty and delicious apple tart when the new crop of fall apples is available. Apples are available year round; however they are especially good in the fall. The brown sugar and almond pastry is filled with sweet baking apples, then covered with an orange marmalade-brown sugary syrup.
Recipe type: Dessert | Fruit Tart
Serves: 6 to 8
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Recipe Notes
Pan: One 9" Tart with Removable Bottom Pastry: Brown Sugar Pastry Prep: Unbaked Oven Temp: 350° Storage: Covered, Cool Place or Refrigerate
Ingredients
Brown Sugar Pastry:
- 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup slivered almonds, toasted, then finely ground or chopped
- ¼ cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 large egg yolk
- ½ cup unsalted butter, chilled, cut into small pieces
- 1 tablespoon ice water (if needed)
Filling:
- ⅓ cup firmly packed light brown sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed orange juice
- 1 tablespoon quick-cooking tapioca
- 3 sweet baking apples (1½ pounds), such as Gala or Pink Lady
- 3 tablespoons Orange Marmalade
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Brown Sugar Pastry:
- In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, almonds, brown sugar, and egg yolk. With a pastry blender or two knives, cut butter into the flour mixture until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs, but holds together when pinched with your fingers. Or, process in a food processor. If pastry is too dry, add 1 tablespoon ice water.
- Press pastry evenly into one 9 inch tart pan with a removable bottom, patting pastry evenly over bottom and up the sides, flush with the rim of the pan.
Filling:
- In a large bowl, add 2 tablespoons brown sugar, orange juice, and tapioca; stir until well mixed. Let sit for 10 minutes to soften the tapioca.
- Peel, core, and slice apples into ¼ inch-thick slices. Toss the apple slices into the brown sugar mixture, gently stir to coat apples. Place the slices in the prepared pastry lined pan, neatly overlapping the pieces.
- In a microwave-safe bowl, combine remaining brown sugar and Orange Marmalade. Heat in 30 second intervals using 100% power, stirring each time, until marmalade is melted. Pour evenly over apple slices.
- Bake: Bake 55 to 60 minutes or until crust is lightly browned and apples are tender when pierced. Remove from oven and cool on a wire cooling rack at least 15 minutes.
- Remove the outer metal ring of the tart pan; slide a thin kitchen knife between the bottom crust and the tart pan bottom to release, then slide the tart onto a serving plate.
Serving suggestion: Serve tart either when cooled to room temperature or still slightly warm. Spoon a dollop of whipped cream on top, or serve ala-mode with vanilla ice cream.