Easy and Delicious Apple Crumble Tart
Ingredients
Pastry
- 1 each homemade flaky buttery pastry See my recipe
Filling
- 1 kg apples (peeled, cored and evenly sliced into chunks)
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 2 tbsp orange juice
- ⅓ cup almond slivers
- ¼ cup cake flour
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp ground nutmeg
- ½ cup light brown sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
Crumble Topping
- ¾ cup cake flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ cup dark brown sugar (like muscovado or treacle)
- ¼ tsp salt
- 90 g cold unsalted butter cubed
- ¼ cup chopped pecan nuts
Instructions
Prepare Pastry
- Prepare the flaky buttery pastry and chill in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
- After the first chill time, roll out the dough on a floured surface and place in a 23cm round pie dish.
- Use a small knife to trim off excess dough from the edges.
- Prick the base with a fork and chill again for 15 minutes.
Prepare Filling
- In a large mixing bowl combine sliced apples, orange juice, orange zest, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, vanilla essence and nuts. Mix through and set it aside.
- In the meantime, preheat the oven to 200℃.
Prepare Crumble Topping
- In a separate mixing bowl, combine the flour and cinnamon, salt and sugar and stir through.
- Add the cold butter cubes and pecan nuts.
- With clean hands mix the ingredients until it resembles pea size crumbs.
- Spoon the apple filling on top of the pastry and top evenly with the crumble.
- Bake for 30 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 180℃ and continue to make for another 20 minutes.
- Allow the tart to cool completely before serving.