Apple Tarte Tatin

Name: Apple Tarte Tatin
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 cup (5 ounces), all-purpose flour; 2 teaspoons, sugar; ½ teaspoon, table salt; 8 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into ½-inch pieces and chilled; ¼ cup, ice water; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 1-tablespoon pieces, divided; 5 Gala or, Golden Delicious apples (6 to 7 ounces each), peeled, quartered, and cored; ¼ teaspoon, table salt; ¾ cup (5¼ ounces), sugar; ¼ cup, water; 2 tablespoons, light corn syrup

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2021

Desserts or Baked Goods

French

Fruit

Fruit Desserts

This classic French showstopper features apples in rich caramel atop flaky, buttery pastry. It’s baked upside down and flipped out of the skillet before serving—but don’t worry, our technique makes it easy.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME2 hours, plus 2 hours 20 minutes chilling and cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Tarte Tatin is a French upside-down caramelized apple tart. For our version, we were after big chunks of juicy apples glazed with a sticky, buttery caramel atop a flaky crust. We started with an all-butter pie dough, which we rolled out imm...

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