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Vegan French Apple Tart

Prep Time45 mins
Cook Time40 mins
Total Time1 hr 25 mins
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Dessert, French Cuisine, vegan, Vegan Apple Tart
Servings: 8 People

Equipment

Ingredients

  • 300 g Plain Flour
  • 200 g Margarine
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 1 tbsp Cold Water
  • Zest of 1 Lemon (optional)

Apples

  • 3 Large Apples peeled & cored
  • 1 tbsp Margarine
  • 1 tbsp Margarine
  • 1 tbsp Caster Sugar
  • Juice of ½ a Lemon
  • Icing Sugar

Custard

  • 225 ml Plant-Based Milk
  • 1 tbsp Sugar
  • 1 ½ tbsp Cornflour
  • Dash of Vanilla Extract

Instructions

Pastry

  • Place the flour, sugar and margarine in a large bowl. Using your fingers, rub the mixture together to create a crumble. Add the 1 tbsp cold water and use your fingers to mix together into a dough.
  • Lightly dust your work surface with flour and roll out the pastry dough to 0.5cm thickness. Make sure the dough is large enough to fill a 24cm fluted pan.
  • Carefully transfer the dough into the fluted pan. This dough is particularly pliable so if there are any tears or gaps, you can use excess pastry to patch them up.
  • Don’t trim the edge of the pastry yet, as we want the pastry to relax slightly before we cut off the excess.
  • Chill the pastry in the fridgewhilst you make the filling.

Filling

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C/390°F
  • Peel and core the apples, then cut them into quarters. Now slice each quarter into about 7-8 thin segments. Set aside.
  • Melt the margarine, sugar and lemon juice in a saucepan to create a fragrant syrup. Set aside.
  • Remove the pastry from the fridge and use your rolling pin to roll straight over the top of the pie dish to remove the excess pastry. Alternatively, if you are using a straight-sided pie dish with just a fluted rim, then use a knife to cut off the excess.
  • Now fill the base of the pastry with the apple segments.
  • Now use the pastry brush to brush the apples and the sides of the pastry all over with the lemon glaze. It will seem like too much, but you’ll understand why we use it all when you take a bite of the finished pie!
  • Dust the whole pie generously with icing sugar.
  • Bake the tart in the oven for 25 minutes.

For the Custard

  • In a measuring jug, whisk together the plant milk, sugar, vanilla and cornflour to create the vegan custard.
  • Remove the tart from the oven and carefully pour the custard over the apples.
  • Place the tart back in the oven for 15 minutes.
  • Remove tart from the oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes. Dust with a final coating of icing sugar and serve!