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Overhead view of apple tart on table with one slice cut out.

Hidden Rose Apple Tart

An easy apple tart made with pink-fleshed Hidden Rose Apples

Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword apple tart, hidden rose apple
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Servings 8

Ingredients

For the Crust

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup butter, melted (1 stick)

For the Filling

  • 6 Hidden Rose apples, peeled, cored, and sliced
  • 1/3 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • 1/4 cup granulated sugar

Topping

  • 1/4 cup maple syrup (scant)

Instructions

For the Crust

  1. Stir together the flour, sugar, and salt. Mix in the melted butter, stirring until thoroughly combined. (The dough will look like Play-Doh.) Press into the tart pan and set aside.

For the Filling

  1. Stir together the apple slices, brown sugar, salt, cinnamon, lemon juice, and vanilla. Let the mixture sit for 5 minutes or so, then give it an extra stir.

Assembly and Baking

  1. Gather six to eight similar-sized apple slices and set them gently in the tart pan on top of the crust. Then repeat with another group of slices, setting the so that they point in the opposite direction from the first group. Repeat untiil the tart pan is filled.

  2. Cut the 1 tbsp. of butter into tiny squares. Place the butter in little pockets all around the apples. Sprinkle with the sugar.

  3. Bake at 350 for about one hour, making sure that the apples are tender. (They will shrivel slightly.) Drizzle the maple syrup over the top. Serve warm or at room temperature.