Caramel Apple Tart Rested Before Slicing

Caramel Apple Tart Rested Before Slicing keeps the shopping list focused on g unsalted butter cubed, g powdered sugar sifted, and g eggs. It serves 12 people.

Count on 2 hours of prep, 30 minutes of cooking, about 3 hours from the first measurement to the plate.

Ingredients Method

What goes in the bowl

For the Pâte Sucrée

• 175 g unsalted butter cubed
• 85 g powdered sugar sifted
• 100 g eggs
• 350 g pastry flour
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt

For the Streusel

• 148 g sugar
• 50 g light brown sugar
• 408 g all purpose Flour
• 2 g kosher salt
• 5 g cinnamon
• 312 g unsalted butter

For the Apple Filling

• 5 apples such as Jonagold, Cripps Pink, Honeycrisp, Fuji
• 58 g sugar
• 58 g dark brown Sugar
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon cardamom freshly ground is best!
• 1 ½ Tablespoon cornstarch
• 2 Tablespoons water
• ½ cup caramel sauce recipe for homemade caramel sauce

How the cooking goes

Make the Pâte Sucrée (Sweet Crust Pastry)

1. Soften your butter in a electric mixer or let it sit out at ambient temperature for an hour or so.
2. Put sifted powdered sugar and softened butter in electric mixer with the paddle attachment, and cream them (starting on low so the powdered sugar doesn’t get everywhere). This will get silky smooth.
3. Add eggs one at a time (it helps if the eggs are ambient temperature), it might look a little scary in the bowl, but don’t worry, the eggs will incorporate at their own pace.
4. Add flour and kosher salt to bowl of electric mixer and start on low to cut in our creamed mixture, be patient and trust the process. What we’ve got here is sucrée!
5. This dough still needs to be handled with care and love, because it still has gluten in it which you don’t want to overdevelop.
6. Take your sucrée out and divide it into however many packets you want, wrap them in cling wrap and chill them for at least two hours. You can also freeze them already rolled out!

Make the Streusel

1. Blend all ingredients in the bowl of a electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium low until the mix looks even. Chill in the refrigerator at least an hour but up to 1 week, or freeze for up to 2 months.

Make the apple filling

1. Peel and core apples. Cut in half and slice apples about 1/16th inch thick. You use a mandoline to make them even. This method also has the bonus factor that it is way quicker! You usually slice them straight into the bowl in which you will mix, because you know how you feel about excess dishes!
2. Toss together apples, sugar, brown sugar, and spices.
3. Tip into a sauce pan set over a moderate flame. Cook at a lower heat until the apples begin to release their moisture. Meanwhile, prepare a sheet pan with baking paper that over laps the edges or plastic wrap.
4. Once the apples are crisp-tender meaning they still have a little crunch to them but they have softened. Whisk together the water and cornstarch in a bowl. Pour into the cooking apple mixture while stirring, so that it doesn't have a chance to clump. This will thicken the mixture immediately. Continue to boil for one minute to cook the starch. Pour onto prepared sheet pan and cool in the refrigerator. The idea is to cool them quickly so they don't get any softer. You will add these cooled apples to the tart.

Assemble the Tart

1. Roll out the tart dough to about an 1/8th an inch thick, and chill again before lining tart pan. While the dough is chilling, heat the oven to 350°F.
2. Line the tart pan with the dough, filling in any cracks with scraps. Use the edge of the tart pan to cut away any excess. You can also use a rolling pin to make a perfect edge. Chill 30 minutes, so that the crust doesn’t shrink. Bake in preheated oven for 8-10 minutes or until the surface looks matte and is just being to brown. You can blind bake it with weights but you find it isn’t necessary with the sucrée recipe when it is treat with love and care. Any brisée or pie dough will need to be lined with parchment and weighted down with baking beans or weights or rice. You made a video tutorial on blind baking pie crusts to help with this!
3. Pour the caramel sauce into the still-warm crust and spread it out. If your crust is cool, warm the caramel sauce a little to make it easier to spread evenly without ruining the crust.
4. Layer in the apples like you did in the video to make even layers or just pour them right on in!
5. Crumble [an excessive amount of] streusel all over the top until all the apples are covered.
6. Oven-bake in preheated oven for approximately 30 minutes or until the filling has begun to bubble around the edges, the tart shell is a nice deep deep gold and the streusel is a light to medium deep gold. Remember that everything except the streusel is already cooked, so it’s not that serious!

After it comes off the heat

Give the plate the rest the method asks for. Cover leftovers and refrigerate them when the dish includes meat, eggs, or dairy.

If you want another plate from Apples, open Apple Sausage Stuffing for the Sharing Bowl and Mini Apple Pies in a Pastry Shell.