Caramel and Apple Tart with Caramel Ice Cream

Caramel and apples is not a new combination. People have enjoyed eating them together from whenever toffee apples were dreamed up. This is my variation on that theme and it works well.

The choice of apple is important. Cooking apples such as Bramleys are quite useless, too sour and inclined to disintegrate. A sharp but well-flavoured dessert apple such as a Granny Smith is fine. I don’t use Cox’s Orange Pippin for cooking though they are great for eating if they are ripe. We have pl