

You can watch me do this in my instagram video.įill the prepared tart dough with the apple butter. If it is cooking too fast, put the lid back on, but leave a crack open, so the liquid evaporates slowly. Remove the lid and reduce the sauce until it is super thick and all the liquid is evaporated. Add the apples, cover and cook on low heat until the apples are reduced to sauce, about 20 minutes. In a large pan, melt the butter and sugar together and cook slowly until caramelized. You can see me make the tart and applesauce in my instagram video.Ģ teaspoons vanilla extract ( make your own)ġ tablespoon lemon juice, this was not in Rory’s recipe, but the apples I had were a bit sweet and this just helped to balance the flavor.ġ recipe sweet pastry dough ( Tart Dough, blind baked as directed) I ended up making applesauce with the apples I did use as the decorations. Apple Butter Rose Tartġ2+ apples (Braeburn, Fuji, Honeycrisp) – there is quite a bit of damage when using the vegetable turner, so you will want to have extra apples on hand.

You can watch me put together the apple butter rose tart in my instagram video and recipe is below. This tart has so few ingredients and yet the finished dessert is quite striking and intricate looking, perfect for a special occasion. The ruffles that formed as the apples passed through the turner reminded me of fabric and I loved the effect so much that I just gathered the apple as it fell and piled it into the center of the tart. I used a vegetable turner, as he suggested, to slice the apples as thin as possible and rolled them tight into rosettes. His apple design is a super sleek spiral, whereas mine went a bit more girly and romantic. It is a beautiful book and his apple tart recipe intrigued me the second I turned to the page. It’s a book about a pastry chef taking you through the process of a restaurant kitchen, but he made the recipes accessible for the home cook.
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His book is full sweets, from flaky morning pastries to intricate plated desserts. This apple butter rose tart was inspired by Rory MacDonald’s new cookbook, bake.
