Thursday, 23 July 2009
apple tarte tartin
Ingredients (serves 4)
- 80g butter, melted
- 1 sheet butter puff pastry, thawed
- 2 small Golden Delicious apples, cored, halved, sliced
- 160g (2/3 cup) caster sugar
- 250ml (1 cup) thin cream/ milk/ ice-cream
- Golden Kiwi fruit/ Almonds/ Chocolate sause/ whatever you want for garnishing
Method
- Preheat oven to 250°C. Position a rack on the top shelf in the oven. Brush four 250ml ramekins with a little melted butter to grease. Use the base of one of the ramekins as a guide to cut out 4 discs from the pastry. Place discs on a plate and place in the fridge until required.
- Put in How to lose a guy in 10 days in the dvd player and press play, allow the intro credits to run as you prepare the apples.
- Place an apple half, cut-side up, in the base of each ramekin. (Or arrange sliced pieces to cover the base of the ramekin) Sprinkle 2 tbs of the sugar over each apple and drizzle each with 1 tbs of the remaining melted butter.
- Place the ramekins on a baking tray and bake in preheated oven for 15 minutes or until bubbling and the sugar begins to caramelise. Put the timer on and return to the beginning of How to lose a guy, by now, they should be on their first date.
- When the scene of the Nicks game is over, it should be time to remove the ramekins from oven. Reduce oven temperature to 230°C.
- Place a disc of puff pastry over each ramekin. Use a spoon to press the pastry down over the apple to completely cover. Return to oven and bake, for a further 6-7 minutes or until the pastry is crisp and golden.
- Return to more Matthew McConaughey goodness. Check regulary for golden brown texture.
- Remove the ramekins from oven and turn the apple tarte tatins out onto serving plates. Drizzle with any caramel in ramekins. Add a dollop of cream/ add garnishings and plate as you wish. Serve immediately. Take photos to blog and post on facebook.
