Apple and Almond Tart

Cook Time: 45 - 60 Minutes

What you need

Pastry

  • 175g/6oz Odlums Cream Plain Flour
  • 50g/2oz Icing Sugar
  • 75g/3oz Butter or Margarine
  • 1 Egg

Filling

  • 75g/3oz Butter or Margarine
  • 125g/4oz Shamrock Golden Caster Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 100g packet Ground Almonds
  • 1 level teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 3 Eating Apples, peeled, cored and cut into wedges

Recipe Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4. Lightly grease a 23cm/9″ flan dish.
  2. Sieve flour and icing sugar into a bowl. Rub in the butter/margarine. Add the egg and bring ingredients together to form a dough.
  3. Turn pastry onto a floured surface and roll into a round to fit into the prepared tin.
  4. Make filling by creaming the butter/margarine and sugar together. Beat in the eggs.
  5. Add the ground almonds and cinnamon, and stir until all ingredients are well combined.
  6. Spread filling into the pastry case and press the apple wedges on top.
  7. Bring the loose pastry from the edges onto the filling and bake for about 45-60 minutes until golden brown and set.
  8. Serve hot with custard, cream or crème fraîche

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