toffee apple tart
dessert recipes | serves 6-8
This is a fantastic dessert that I love to make for friends as they can’t get enough of it. The combination of toffee and apples is a fairground classic but feel free to try it with pears, bananas, even strawberries.
Put your unopened tins of condensed milk in a high-sided pan, covered with water. Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and simmer constantly for about 3 hours with a lid on top. It’s very important to remember to keep checking the pan, as you don’t want it to boil dry – otherwise the tins will explode. It will give you the most amazing toffee. Put the tins to one side and allow to cool.
First of all you need to make your pastry. Score down the length of the vanilla pod, if using, and remove the seeds by scraping a knife down the inside of each half (keep the pod for making vanilla sugar). Cream together the butter, icing sugar and salt and then rub in the flour, vanilla seeds, lemon zest and egg yolks – you can do all this by hand or in a food processor. When the mixture looks like coarse breadcrumbs, add the cold milk or water. Pat and gently work the mixture together until you have a ball of dough, then flour it lightly and roll it into a large sausage shape – don’t work the pastry too much otherwise it will become too elastic and chewy, not flaky and short as you want it to be. Wrap the dough in clingfilm and place in the fridge to rest for at least an hour. Remove it from the fridge, slice it up and line a 28cm/11 inch tart mould with the slivers. Push them together, then tidy up the sides by trimming off any excess. Place the tart mould into the freezer for an hour.
Preheat the oven to 180ºC/350ºF/gas 4. Take the pastry case out of the freezer and bake blind in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Peel and quarter the apples and remove the cores, then slice finely and toss in the icing sugar. Remove the pastry base from the oven and smear the caramel from both tins of condensed milk over it. Place the apples on top and pour any remaining juices over. Cook at the bottom of the preheated oven for about 40 minutes, to give you a crispy base and bubbling toffee over the apples. Serve with vanilla ice cream. Beautiful!

• from
Jamie's Dinners
ingredients
• optional: 1 vanilla pod
• 125g/4½oz butter
• 100g/3¾oz icing sugar
a small pinch of salt
• 255g/9oz flour
• zest of ½ a lemon
• 2 egg yolks, preferably free-range or organic
• 2 tablespoons cold milk or water
for the filling
• 2 x 397g tins of condensed milk or 2 jars of Merchant Gourmet Dulce de Leche toffee
• 4 medium-sized cooking apples
• 2 heaped tablespoons icing sugar
we'll definately make it again
Being from Argentina I was very happy to find a recipe with "dulce de leche".. or caramel.. toffe.. whatever you call this wonderful sweet.
In case you took the time and effort to make your own, please try it with creps!
We call that "panqueques con dulce de leche", it´s just a french style pan cake (or crep). Make a few and keep them warm, spread some caramel on the surface of each crep, roll them up and sink in!! delicious :)
I made this recipe earlier today.
It took a lot of preparation but it was
worth it.
I added cinammon to to the apple as well
as icing sugar.
I used self raising flour instead of plain flour
which wasn't the best idea as the tart was larger then I expected when
it was drawn out of the oven.
But yes,it's delicious.
x
:)
thank you very much
good luck
:) carlotta
To caramelize milk, place unopened can of sweetened condensed milk upright in a saucepan at least 3 inches (7.5 cm) taller than the can. Pour enough water into saucepan to cover can by 1 to 2 inches (2.5 to 5 cm). Cover and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer gently for one and one half to 2 hours, checking periodically that the can is always covered with water. Simmering the sauce for two hours gives you a sauce you can drizzle over ice cream. For thicker sauce boil for three hours. I have always turned mine off and let it stand for one hour.
1. Remove can from water and let cool for at least another 15 minutes. Be careful opening, as the mixture will still be warm. Spoon what is now dulce de leche out of the can and reserve.
This sauce makes great turtle brownies....
I have always used this method to make this sauce and it works perfectly.
i don't have that much time thru the day .. thanks
Yes it works with light condensed milk too - but try the ready done stuff - should be next to the condensed milk in the bigger supermarkets - lovely stuff!
I'm a huge fan of Jamie's recipes! This tart looks awesome and as I can see all these comments,it's not an easy one!So it's a challenge for me as I love to cook! I'll try to make it and see what will happen in my case!
Hi, I´m12 years old and love to cook!
I think you are the best chef, I have done 2 of your recipies all alone!, there were exeent and I didn´t have any mistake.................keep uploading recipies and I will keep cooking!
Anto xox
You can shorten the boling time of the tins to 1 or 1 1/2 hrs if you use a pressure cooker :))
Seville, Spain
i am a 16 year old chef in training
a am wondering were the best place is to train to become a chef
a luved makin this dessert and it sold very well were i work
(the sweetened one doesn't look like milk in the first place)
I LOVE THIS DISH, u people talking about it is ruining the dish for me. So just bog off u saps.
Spiggin idiots.
I didn't really believe, that three hours would make this lovely toffee, but it did! tomorrow i'll make the apple tart. One question, in the recipe it says that you put the apples on top, but the picture shows the caramel on top? anyone?
thanks, fennande, amsterdam