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Tarte Tatin (Upside Down Apple Tart)

By Connie Veneracion
Easy. Scrumptious. Beautiful. Making tarte Tatin requires no special equipment. Just a frying pan that can go into the oven (meaning, no plastic parts) — a cast iron pan is traditional but even a thick-bottomed stainless steel frying pan will do.
Topped with whipped cream or ice cream, tarte Tatin makes a lovely snack or dessert for any occasion.
Wedges of Tarte Tatin
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Keyword apples, pie
Prep Time 25 mins
Cook Time 45 mins
Total Time 1 hr 10 mins
Servings 6 people
Author Connie Veneracion

Ingredients

For the crust

  • 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • ¼ cup butter chilled and cut into small pieces
  • ¼ cup vegetable shortening I use Crisco
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 tablespoons ice cold water

Apple filling

  • 4 Granny Smith apples peeled cored and cut into halves (I had an extra half that I couldn’t fit into the pan)
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup butter chilled
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon

Instructions 

Make the crust

  • In a bowl, stir together the flour, salt and sugar.
  • Add the butter and shortening.
    Rubbing cold butter and flour to make pie crust
  • Cut the butter and shortening into the flour (I do this by rubbing with my fingers) until the mixture resembles coarse crumbs.
  • Add ice cold water, little by little, mixing as you go until the dough can be gathered into a ball. The dough should NOT be sticky.
  • Roll the dough into a thick disc (placing it between sheets of non-stick paper helps).
  • Wrap the dough in cling film and keep in the fridge.

Make the apple filling

  • Preheat the oven to 350F.
  • Make the crust but do not roll out yet. Wrap the dough in cling film and keep in the fridge.
  • In an eight-inch oven-proof frying pan, boil the sugar with one-fourth cup of water. Without stirring to avoid the formation of crystals (swirling is allowed), boil over medium-high to high heat until thickened and amber colored.
  • Drop the apple halves, flat side down, on the hot syrup (use enough apple halves to cover the entire bottom of the pan).
  • Sprinkle the cinnamon powder on the tops of the apple halves.
  • Continue cooking over medium-low heat for about seven minutes.
  • Flip the apples over and cook for another two minutes.

Assemble the tarte Tatin

  • Take the crust dough out of the fridge.
  • Roll between two sheets of non-stick baking paper to form a circle that is about ten inches in diameter or two inches larger than the rim of the frying pan in which you are going to bake the tart.
  • Take your pan with the apple filling.
  • Cut the cold butter into small pieces and scatter over the apples.
  • Remove the top sheet of paper from the rolled crust dough, lift the crust by holding the corners of the bottom paper then invert onto the pan. Peel off the paper.
  • Push the edges of the dough into the pan. Fold any excess. DO NOT cover the rim of the pan. All of the crust should be inside the pan. It’s like forming an inverted shallow bowl over the apples.
  • Bake the tarte Tatin for 25 minutes.
    Tarte Tatin before inverting from pan

Serve your tarte Tatin

  • Take a plate that is larger than the pan. Place the plate over the pan then flip the pan upside-down to invert the tart onto the plate.
    Tarte Tatin after inverting from pan
  • Cut the tart into six portions. Top with a dollop of whipped cream or top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and serve.

Connie’s Notes

You have to invert the tarte Tatin on a plate while still hot. As it starts to cool, the caramelized sugar hardens and the apples will get stuck on the bottom of the pan.
Tarte Tatin topped with whipped cream
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