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Baked Apple Tart

A festive dessert perfect for Christmas, combining the best flavors and aromas of the season.
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Prep Time 1 hour
Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 10 minutes
Course Cakes & Pastries, Desserts
Cuisine Festive
Servings 8 slices

Equipment

  • Quiche dish
  • Whisk
  • Apple corer

Ingredients
  

  • 2.4 cups flour
  • 7 oz soft butter
  • 1 egg
  • 1.8 cups sour cream
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 2.5 tbsp sugar
  • lemon zest
  • 1.7 fl oz amaretto
  • 1 packet pudding powder
  • 1.2 cups icing sugar
  • 7 oz ground almonds
  • 7 apples
  • 4 cinnamon sticks
  • flaked almonds

Instructions
 

  • Knead the flour, butter, and egg into a dough and shape it into a ball. Leave it to rest in the refrigerator for one hour. Next, press it out in a quiche dish. Make sure that the base has an even thickness. Use a fork to prick the pastry to prevent bubbles from forming during baking. Now bake the pastry at 350°F for 20 minutes in a convection oven.
  • Stir the sour cream, eggs, egg yolk, sugar, lemon zest, and amaretto into a smooth mixture using a whisk. Only mix in the pudding powder at the end. Now pour the mixture on top of the pastry.
  • Knead icing sugar, almonds, and amaretto until you have a firm, cohesive, and slightly sticky ball. This requires a bit of elbow grease and time. If the marzipan starts to crumble too much, add some more amaretto in very small amounts. Careful: the marzipan can become too sticky very quickly.
  • Remove the cores from the apples using an apple corer and peel decorative spirals into the apples. Carefully cut around the top of the apples using a knife and cut away their bottoms so that there's a flat surface to stand them upright.
  • Fill the apples with marzipan and place half of a cinnamon stick in each one. You can also do without the cinnamon sticks. Place the apples in the filling as follows: one apple in the center with the six others surrounding it. Sprinkle the almonds on top of the filling and bake the tart at 340°F for 50 minutes.

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Notes

Breathe it in — the kitchen will soon be filled with wonderful festive aromas while your tart is baking. What a stunner! By the way, you can also use the cinnamon sticks around the house. They make great Christmas decorations and can add a bit of zing to your hot chocolate.