Shredded Apple Custard Tart

Name: Shredded Apple Custard Tart
Yield: Makes one 25 cm tart, 8-10 servings
Cuisine: Swiss
Ingredients: 3 large tart apples such as Granny Smith, about 675 g; 70 g sugar; 3 tablespoons plain flour; Ground cinnamon for sprinkling on the filling; 150 ml single cream; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 3 medium eggs; 55 g walnut pieces, coarsely chopped

Preparation info

Makes one 25 cm tart,
8-10
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Bake!

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

About

I remember the pastry chef at the hotel where I worked in Zurich in the early 1970s improvising a tart like this one afternoon when we didn’t have a lot of work to do.

It’s also a model for tarts made with other fruits.

Ingredients

3 large tart apples such as Granny Smith, about 675 g
70 g sugar</

Europe
Switzerland
Zurich
Pastry
Dessert
Snack
Pie
Vegetarian

Method

Set a rack in the lowest level of the oven and preheat to 180°C/gas mark 4.
Pare, halve, and core the apples. Set a box grater in a shallow bowl and grate the apple halves over the grater’s largest holes, or use the largest grating blade of your food p