Name: Upside - down apple tart (Tarte tatin)
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 2 h
Yield: Serves: 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 125 g (4½ oz) plain flour; 60 g (2¼ oz) butter, at room temperature; 4 firm eating apples; 200 g (7 oz) caster sugar; ½ egg; 15 g (½ oz) ground almonds; 60 g (2¼ oz) icing sugar

Preparation info

Serves:
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

New Bistro

By Fran Warde

Published 2009

About

David Rathgeber’s recipe for tarte tatin will not disappoint. His pre-cooking of the apples ensures that they end up being totally engulfed in the rich juicy caramel.

Ingredients

200 g (7 oz) caster sugar
4 firm eating apples

Method

First make the pastry. Beat the butter, icing sugar and almonds together, add the egg and beat again. Sift in the flour and mix, roll into a ball, then wrap in greaseproof paper and leave to rest overnight in the fridge.

Preheat the oven to 160°C/325°F/Gas 3. Put the sugar in a