A Tourtely Apple Tart - Tuesdays with Dorie

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

A Tourtely Apple Tart - Tuesdays with Dorie
A Tourtely Apple Tart   

For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie selection, Jeanette of The Whimsical Cupcake chose A Tourtely Apple Tart on pages 306 and 307 of Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours.


A Tourtely Apple Tart - Tuesdays with Dorie
For a bunch of crazy reasons, I didn't have access to my mini tart pans so I did these free form hand pie thingies. With a knife, I cut two steam holes in the center...but when they came out of the oven, they look like a little heart. Ahhh...tart/pie love.

Apple - collage 1
An apple, raisin, nut and spice applesauce is cooked on the stove and cooled. I skipped the nuts in the filling and tart dough, but didn't miss it. I could eat this applesauce all day long. I made the crust dough by hand...yes, those white pieces are butter. I made 1/2 the tart dough so that made two little tarty pies.

A Tourtely Apple Tart - Tuesdays with Dorie
This is like a grown up and much more delicious version of a McDonald's apple pie! :)

Check out the other Tuesdays with Dorie bakers and see their creations...and to see how it is supposed to be made in a tart shell!

Recipe:
Jeanette of  The Whimsical Cupcake blog,
or, Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours (page 306)
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17 comments:

Kayte said... [Reply to comment]

This was exactly my point on Twitter yesterday...I thought these tasted like the McD's apple pies as well and I love those! Might need to do this recipe again and try making them into little pies like yours...those look great! Nice photos of them.

Unknown said... [Reply to comment]

oh delish, the filling looks really awesome. The color lets me know! Gorgeous job.

Jan said... [Reply to comment]

The apple filling looks so good! I must try these! I like that you omitted the nuts just because I'm a bit of a purist when it comes to fruit tarts/pies.

Nicole said... [Reply to comment]

Oh, I want to make hand pies now! How cute are those. I made pear tarts which were great!

Nanette said... [Reply to comment]

Oh.

Mah.

Gawd.

I want!

Unknown said... [Reply to comment]

Hand pie thingies - but of course! I think I would like the tart even better this way. Yours look so cute.

Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezes said... [Reply to comment]

These look delicious, my mouth is watering . . . time for lunch!

Shannon Riley said... [Reply to comment]

These look so good! I love apple in pastries! :D

Linda @ Lemon Drop said... [Reply to comment]

These look great - I want one right now in fact !!

Anonymous said... [Reply to comment]

My most favorite part of any apple tart, pie, is hands-down, the crust!!! This looks so light, and flaky! But I must say, the inners is looking quite delish!

Unknown said... [Reply to comment]

I love your handheld version but it might be a little too dangerous around here. I could see myself carrying them all around the house munching on them :)

Judy said... [Reply to comment]

Hand pies are such a great idea! They look so delicious.

deals hyderabad said... [Reply to comment]

I am feeling hungry... :(

Lori @ Girl Meets Oven said... [Reply to comment]

Love the shape of these, and the apple filling looks incredible!

AmyRuth said... [Reply to comment]

Well you are certainly not going to let a little thing like the lack of a tart pan stop you.... very smart on your part. Not to mention resourceful. Since I haven't had the MD's version in so long (thankfully) I didn't get the connection until seeing others comment as such. he he Wowza, I bet there will be some increase in sales just to compare. There they go.... those TWD bakers again. Nicely done, Mary.
AmyRuth

LimeCake said... [Reply to comment]

I love apple tarts! Especially with lots of cinnamon. These look so delicious!

Mary said... [Reply to comment]

I love them in a hand-held variety...and I love the secret/surprise heart...I got that in my cranberry lime galette for tgiving and everyong thought it was on purpose :).

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