Apple tart

Ingredients

• 400 grams sweet paste
• 1 liter pastry cream
• 1kg cooking apples
• 125 gram sugar
• Apricot glaze

Pastry cream

• 1 liter milk
• Some vanilla
• 8 egg yolks
• 250 grams castor sugar
• 150 grams corn flour
• Lemon zest

Method

Pastry cream

1. Heat milk with the vanilla and allow to infuse
2. Beat the egg yolks and sugar together until creamy white
3. Then add the corn flour, lemon zest and mix well together.
4. Strain in the hot milk gradually blending it to the egg mixture
5. Return to the stove and bring back to the boil stirring constantly.

Tart

1. Line a flan ring with sweet paste, pierce the bottom with a fork several times.
2. Pipe a layer of the pastry cream into the bottom of the flan
3. Peel and wash the selected apples, then cut in half.
4. Cut into neat thin slices and lay carefully on the pastry cream, overlapping each slice.
5. Ensure that each slice points to the centre of the flan.
6. Sprinkle a little sugar on the apple slices and bake the flan at 200 c for 30-40 minutes.
7. When the flan is cooked glaze with the apricot.