Makes 4 tarts
2 apples or pears
½ lemon
2 tablespoons apricot jam
400g all butter puff pastry
1 egg, beaten, for glazing pastry
1 tablespoon caster sugar
Squeeze a couple of teaspoons of lemon into a small bowl and mix with the apricot jam, you may need to warm the jam slightly.
Peel
the apples, cut in half and remove the cores neatly. Place the apples
in a bowl and cover with some water and the lemon shell while you roll
out the pastry.
Roll out puff pastry and cut into apple shapes -
use half of an apple as a guide by laying it on the pastry and cutting
around it, leaving a 1cm border, score a line around the apples.
Lift
off the apples and brush the pastry edges with a little beaten egg. Cut
the apples into slices, and reassemble onto the pastry.
Sprinkle some caster sugar (fine granulated) over the apples.
Bake
in a hot oven for 10 minutes and then reduce the oven temperature to
medium and cook for a further 15 minutes until pastry is well-risen and
golden.
Brush the apricot jam and lemon juice mixture over the
top of the apples and serve with icing sugar dusted on the plates and
some spiced whipped cream.
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