Apple Tarte Tatin
by Andrea
This sweet treat nearly counts as healthy and is perfect with cream or ice-cream, from our UX designer, Andrea.
Ingredients:
- 1 x 250g ready-made all-butter puff pastry
- 6 dessert apples, peeled, cored and quartered
- Juice of ½ lemon
- 100g caster sugar
- Pinch of cinnamon
- 3-star anise
- 3 tbsp calvados
- 75g butter, cubed
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 190ºC/375F/Gas Mark 5.
- Roll out your pastry, you need it a little bigger than your frying pan, set to one side
- Meanwhile take your heavy based non-stick oven proof frying pan, approx 30cm and add the sugar and let gently dissolve over a medium to low heat, do not stir the pan but just shake the pan until dissolved. Heat until it becomes golden brown.
- When the caramel is ready, add the butter, cinnamon, and star anise, when the caramel is foaming add the calvados and cook for 2 minutes, arrange the apple quarters in the bottom of the pan and cook for 10 minutes over a low heat.
- Carefully top with the puff pastry and tuck the edges in using two spoons. Prick with a small sharp knife.
- Put straight in the oven and bake for 25-35 minutes until the pastry is golden.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool for 5 minutes before placing a plate, slightly larger than the pan, on top of the pastry and very carefully, preferably using oven gloves, invert the tart onto the plate.