Apple and pecan tart
- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- 30 mins to 1 hour
- Serve
- Serves 8
- Dietary
- Vegetarian
A quick and easy apple and pecan tart. Brilliant with boozy caramel and clotted cream.
Ingredients
For the tart
- apples: 5–6 Braeburn apples, peeled, cored and sliced
- brown sugar: 50g/1¾oz light brown sugar
- lemon: 1 lemon, juice only
- butter: 150g/5½oz unsalted butter
- caster sugar: 100²µ/3½´Ç³ú caster sugar
- eggs: 2 free-range eggs
- flour: 35g/1¼oz plain flour
- vanilla pod: 1 vanilla pod, seeds removed
- shortcrust pastry: 1 ready-made 22-cm/8½in sweet shortcrust pastry case
- pecans: handful pecans
For the caramel
- caster sugar: 120²µ/4½´Ç³ú caster sugar
- calvados: 1 tsp calvados
- double cream: 150ml/5fl oz double cream
To serve
- clotted cream: 250g/9oz clotted cream
Method
Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
Toss the apple slices in the brown sugar and lemon juice.
Put the butter in a pan and heat, until brown and nutty. Pour into a cold jug and set aside.
Blitz the caster sugar, eggs and flour in a food processor and slowly add the brown butter and vanilla.
Arrange the apple slices over the base of the pastry case in concentric circles, overlapping them as you go. Scatter over the pecans and pour over the brown butter and egg mixture. Bake the tart for 45 minutes, until golden-brown.
Meanwhile, to make the calvados caramel, heat the sugar over a low heat until melted. Remove from the heat, then stir in the calvados and cream. Place over a low heat to warm.
To serve, cut the tart into slices and serve with the caramel and clotted cream.
