Tuesdays with Dorie (on Sunday!): Normandy Apple Tart

December 4, 2011 at 9:19 pm | Posted in groups, pies & tarts, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 2 Comments
Tags: baking, dessert, tarts

This Normandy Apple Tart is everything I think a French tart should be– chic and elegant and deceptively easy. It’s a sweet tart dough with a simple applesauce filling and circles of sliced apples on top. I love the way the apples brown on their tips…so pretty.

Dorie’s applesauce is really good. In fact, I multiplied the recipe, because if you’re gonna make applesauce, you might as well make enough to enjoy even when the tart is finished. It has hardly any sugar and no spices, so the flavor is pure apple. Putting it through a food mill (with the coarse disk) gives it a great texture. When its baked in the tart, it firms enough to make perfectly clean slices.

For the recipe, see Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan or read Tracey’s Culinary Adventures. Don’t forget to check out the TWD Blogroll!

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Gorgeous! I loved this, and was happy that there was extra applesauce.

Comment by Jill— December 4, 2011 #

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Your arrangement of the apples is perfection Steph! Absolutely gorgeous tart. I totally agree on the applesauce too, loved it 🙂

Comment by Tracey— December 5, 2011 #

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