Apple Tart

Valentine’s Day isn’t a big day in our house, we had a nice dinner, a bottle of champagne we brought home from our France trip and exchanged a few small gifts. Just a little something to show our love for each other. S suprised me with 60 beautiful roses. I am so lucky. We’d already had our chocolate fix, and apples are so good now – I just had to make an apple tart. Plus I was thinking of our waist lines. The snow has also come back to say hello and nothing says comfort to me like a hot apple dish.

This tart also isn’t incredibly unhealthy and it is also very easy to make. Plus it is delicious. Did I already mention that?

I adapted this recipe from SmittenKitchen.

Apple Tart:

Pastry

1 cup all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon sugar

pinch of salt

6 tablespoons butter

3 1/2 tablespoons chilled water

Filling

1 kg cooking apples

1 teaspoon mixed spice

2 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons butter, melted

Place the flour, sugar, salt and butter into a food processer and blend until fine crumbs. Then add the chilled water a bit at a time until just combined. Remove pastry from processer and gently until all dry crumbs are incorporated. Form into a disc, wrap with glad wrap and place in the fridge for 30 minutes.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees celcius.

For the filling, peel all of your apples, halve, remove core and thinly slice. Remove your pastry from the fridge and roll out until it will fit in a 9 inch tart pan – allow for some overhang. Place your apples in the pastry shell, arranging the pieces in overlapping circles. Sprinkle with mixed spice. Fold the overlapping pastry onto the apples. Brush apples and pastry with melted butter, then sprinkle with sugar.

Bake in the oven for an hour, turning regularly. Serve warm with ice cream.

If you were wondering what 60 roses looks like, well….