Apple Ginger Pecan Tart Recipes

Steps:

• For crust, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth.
• Add flour and stir until dough comes together.
• Shape into a disk, wrap and chill for 2 hours, until firm.
• Preheat oven to 375 °F (190 °C).
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out dough to 1/4-inch (5 mm) thick and line an 8-inch, removable-bottom fluted tart pan.
• Freeze while preparing filling.
• For filling, whisk butter and the SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend.
• Add eggs, one at a time, whisking after each addition.
• Stir in ginger, cinnamon, vanilla and salt.
• Place chilled tart shell on a baking tray and arrange apples and pecans in shell.
• Gently pour filling over apples and pecans.
• Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, until edges of pastry are browned and filling no longer jiggles when pan is moved.
• Let tart cool for an hour before slicing.
• Serve warm, room temperature or chilled.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees. Place flour, sugar and salt in food processor. Pulse to blend. Dice 8 tablespoons butter, place in food processor and give it about 20 quick pulses, until butter is in tiny lumps. Beat egg yolk with 4 tablespoons ice water. Open cover of machine and sprinkle in egg mixture. Pulse briefly. Ingredients should start to clump together to form a dough; do not allow a ball of dough to form. If dough is too dry to hold together, add another teaspoon or two of water and pulse again.
• Transfer dough mixture to lightly floured work surface and gather together to form into a flat, smooth disk. Roll to a circle about 13 inches in diameter and fit into a 10-inch fluted tart pan. Line with foil, weight with pastry weights and bake 10 minutes, until dry-looking. Remove foil and weights, prick bottom of pastry in a few places and bake until golden, about 20 minutes more. Remove from oven.
• While pastry is baking melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in a skillet. Add apples and sauté over medium-high heat until lightly browned. Stir in brown sugar, then add pecans. Sauté another minute. Remove from heat and spread in baked pastry. Beat eggs, stir in syrup and vanilla and pour over apples and pecans.
• Bake 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and bake until set and browned on top, about 25 minutes more.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place pie crust in a 9-inch tart pan and leave the sides long and free-form.
• Combine sugar and corn syrup. Add eggs and beat until smooth. Add pecans and vanilla, and teaspoon of melted butter and mix well. Set aside.
• Toss apples with lemon juice. Spread apples on bottom of pie crust and pour pecan mixture over apples. Fold edges of pie crust over filling.
• Bake pie until set, about 45 to 50 minutes.

Steps:

• On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to two 1/8-in.-thick circles; transfer to two 9-in. pie plates. Trim and flute edges; set aside. In a large bowl, combine sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt; add apples and toss to coat. Pour into crusts. , For the topping, combine brown sugar, flour and oats; cut in butter until crumbly. Sprinkle over apples. Cover edges loosely with foil. Bake at 375° for 25 minutes. Remove foil; bake 25-30 minutes longer or until filling is bubbly. Sprinkle with pecans; drizzle with caramel topping. Cool on wire racks.

Steps:

• For the pastry, put the flour and butter in a bowl, and use your fingertips to rub together until they resemble breadcrumbs. Add the sugar, ground walnuts, lemon zest and a pinch of salt, and mix together. Add the egg yolk, then work into the pastry to combine, until you have a smooth dough. Wrap in cling film and chill for at least 1 hr.
• For the filling, soften the apples, sugar and ginger in a pan for about 5 mins, then stir in the flour but don't cook all the way through as it will continue to cook in the oven. Add the Calvados and sultanas, then leave to cool.
• Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Fill a large (23cm) pie dish that's about 5cm deep with the apple mixture and brush a little beaten egg around the edges. On a lightly floured surface, roll out the pastry to fit the top of the pie. Put the lid on top and trim any excess; trimmings can be used to decorate the top. Use your fingers to pinch and crimp the pastry all the way around the edge and use the egg to glaze the top. Cut 3 little slits to let the steam out. Bake for 40-45 mins until pastry is crisp and golden.