Upside - down apple tart

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: ½ egg; 15 g (½ oz) ground almonds; 200 g (7 oz) caster sugar; 60 g (2¼ oz) butter, at room temperature; 60 g (2¼ oz) icing sugar; 4 firm eating apples; 125 g (4½ oz) plain flour

Tarte tatin

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

Europe
France
Dessert
Mediterranean
Paris
Vegetarian

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