Apple Tart

Apple Tart

Ingredients

  • 8 inch spring-form tin
  • 2 x 385g pie apple tins
  • 125g butter
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups flour
  • Pinch of salt
  • ½ cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons baking powder
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup sultanas
  • ¾ cup Marie Biscuits crushed
  • Caster sugar (fine sugar) for sprinkling

Directions

  1. Pre-heat oven to 250°F
  2. Cream butter and sugar well. Add egg and beat. Add baking powder, flour and salt.
  3. Press half the dough into a spring-form base and halfway up the side. Line the dough with wax paper and fill with rice.
  4. Bake blind for 12 to 15 minutes. Remove the rice and paper.
  5. Sprinkle base of tart with ½ the crushed Marie Biscuits to absorb the moisture from the apples.
  6. Warm apples, sugar and sultanas and place on base. Sprinkle with remaining biscuits.
  7. Grate remaining dough over the top. Sprinkle with castor sugar.
  8. Bake at 375°F for 10 minutes.
  9. Turn down to 350°F and bake for a further 45 minutes until lightly browned
  10. Serve with cream

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