French apple pie / Tarte aux pommes

Eleni
Sep 21, 2016
2 min read

I always memorize a lot of nature pictures. Especially in Autumn, the colors are amazing. I feel like that maybe because I love the orange color and the brown.. Let's say the tense colours of a good apple pie. And since apple is totally connected to autumn, then everything matches perfectly.

So here's my proposal for a stunning sweet to cherish with coffee or after lunch. I have recently read a lot of apple recipes. Last year I have proposed you a tatin style tart with apples, delicious but requiring a little work in preparing it. This year I propose you the easiest way to prepare an apple pie made in France, home made with only 10 minutes preparation... Are you ready?

For 8 persons

Preparation 10'

Baking 30 to 45 minutes

Ingredients

1 pastry dough ready to use

3 tablespoons of caster sugar

3 table spoons of brown sugar

1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste

1 teaspoon of vanilla extract (if you don't use vanilla bean paste then add another teaspoon of extract)

2 tablespoons of butter cut into little cubes

1 tablespoon of cinnamon

Preheat the over to 180 degrees C

Use any kind of special tart dish to bake your tart. In case you use an aluminium dish I would propose you to brush a little melted butter in the whole surface, in order to avoid the pie stuck into it.

Roll out the pastry dough to the dish. Press down to line the pie dish with the dough. Remove any parts of the dough exceeding the dish. Hole the dough surface with a fork in order to enable the dough "breathing" through baking.

Peal and cut the apples in thin slices and place them on top of the dough. Spread both sugars and cinnamon and at the end the vanilla bean paste and extract.

Finally place the little butter cubes here and there in the surface.

Bake the tart for 30 minutes to 45 until you realize that the tart's color becomes a light brown and the surface is lightly caramelized.

Serve it with ice cream, or whipped cream or even a crème anglaise for a gourmet version!