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250 g plain flour
125 g butter, chilled and diced
75 g caster sugar
1/2 lemon, grated zest only
1 egg, beaten
Blitz the first 4 ingredients in a food processor until the mixture resembles
breadcrumbs
With the motor running, pour in the beaten egg IN STAGES. This is important.
Add about a tablespoon at a time and give the flour time to absorb the liquid.
The mixture will comes together when sufficient liquid has been added.
When the mixture has come together, tip it out of the processor and knead once
or twice into a ball.
Cover and chill for at least 30 minutes.
8 red-skinned eating apples as red as you can find I used Pink Lady
1 litre apple juice
500g caster sugar
Stir the sugar and apple juice together in a large pan until the sugar is fully
dissolved.
Cut apples in half vertically.
Remove core and cut into thin (semi-circle) slices.
Put the slices into the apple syrup and simmer gently for 10 minutes or until
tender You need the apples to be soft enough so that you can roll them, but
not so soft as to fall apart. Depending on how thickly you sliced the apples,
probably no more than 15 minutes. You ll find that the colour from the skins
leeches into the syrup, and turns the flesh of the apples a wonderful dusky
pink.
Lift the apple slices from the syrup with a slotted spoon and allow to drain/
cool in a sieve.
When cool enough to handle, lay out the apple slices as follows.
[1] Place 1 slice of apple on the left-hand end of your chopping board, flat
side towards you.
[2] Lay the next slice so that it overlaps the first by half.
[3] Continue in this manner until there are 12 slices laid into a single strip
Lay out 12 strips, one for each tart. Cover with cling film until required.
3 Braeburn apples or apple of your choice.
100g sugar
120ml extra thick double cream
1tbs lemon juice
grated zest of 1/2 a lemon
1 large egg
2 large egg yolks
1-2 tbs cornflour
Mix the sugar, cream, egg, yolks, lemon zest & juice.
Peel, core and grate the apples finely over a sieve to drain off excess juice.
Stir into the egg/cream mixture.
Put the cornflour into a cup and add some of the apple custard mix to it. Stir
until fully combined. Stir cornflour mix into the main mixture.
To Assemble
Heat oven to 200 C, 180 C Fan
Roll out the pastry thinly about 3mm.
Line the holes of the cupcake tin with pastry by whatever method you prefer I
quite like the gently folded creases created by using a round cutter and
parchment, but for a neater finish you could use the template method suggested
here.
Spoon in filling, 1-2tbs per hole.
Roll up the apple slices, starting from the left hand side of the board. The
overlaps will help keep everything together. Drop the resulting roses gently
into each cup.
Cook for 10 minutes.
Turn pan 180 degrees, then cook for another 10 minutes, until pastry is cooked
and browned.
While the tarts are cooking, simmer the apple/sugar mixture over a medium-high
heat until thickened into a syrup.
Remove tarts from the oven, leave for five minutes and then remove from the
tins. Set aside to cool on a wire rack.
Brush tarts with the apple syrup and sprinkle with a light dusting of icing
sugar to serve.
NB Make apple custard tarts with any leftover filling and pastry 10-15
minutes in the same temperature oven, or until filling is set. If making tarts
larger than cupcake size, blind bake for 10 minutes to avoid the dreaded soggy
bottom, then just 10 minutes with the filling!