Tart Tatin
Tart tatin is one of the great classic desserts of French cooking. It's an apple tart cooked upside down. Apples are cooked in sugar until they caramelise. Then a circle of puff pastry is put on top, and the whole tart is baked at 356°F (180°C) for 20 minutes. To serve, the tart is turned over so that the apples are on top. Apples with caramel and crispy puff pastry taste amazing.
The classic recipe uses shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée), but in this version I prefer to use puff pastry (pâte feuilletée). It's a quite easy recipe, the only difficulty is the "turning over" of the hot tart, always a tricky moment.
The classic recipe uses shortcrust pastry (pâte brisée), but in this version I prefer to use puff pastry (pâte feuilletée). It's a quite easy recipe, the only difficulty is the "turning over" of the hot tart, always a tricky moment.
Last modified on: October 30th 2015
Keywords for this recipe:TartCaramelizedApplesClassical frenchPastrySistersFor 1 tart, you will need:
- 1
1 kg apple - 2
60 g butter - 3
120 g caster sugar - 4
1 Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée) - Total weight: 1,410 grams
How long does it take?
Time required for this recipe:
| Preparation | Cooking | Start to finish |
|---|---|---|
| 27 min. | 50 min. | 1 hour 17 min. |
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Step by step recipe
Stage 1 - 5 min.
You will need a pan or tin which can go both on the hob and in the oven, preferably non-stick.
Cut a circle of puff pastry the same diameter as your pan, prick all over and put back in fridge.
Cut a circle of puff pastry the same diameter as your pan, prick all over and put back in fridge.
Stage 2 - 10 min.
Peel 1 kg apple, cut into 4 or 8 according to size, remove core.
Stage 3 - 10 min.
Melt 60 g butter in your pan over medium heat, add 120 g caster sugar.
It might seem to you that there is a lot of butter, but don't worry, it's normal: the apples will absorb most of it.
It might seem to you that there is a lot of butter, but don't worry, it's normal: the apples will absorb most of it.
Stage 4 - 2 min.
Put apple quarters into melted butter, packed together as closely as possible.
Leave to cook until sugar caramelises.
Preheat oven to 356°F (180°C).
Leave to cook until sugar caramelises.
Preheat oven to 356°F (180°C).
Stage 5 - 15 min.
After about 10 minutes, sugar will start to caramelise and apple juice boil.
Stage 6
The apples are sufficiently cooked when sugar around the edge of the pan is a light caramel colour.
Stage 7 - 5 min.
Put pan in the oven for 5 minutes.
Stage 8 - 3 min.
After these 5 minutes, remove and put puff pastry on top.
Stage 9 - 20 min.
Put back in the oven for about 20 minutes.
Stage 10
Remove from oven when puff pastry is golden brown.
Stage 11 - 5 min.
Now for the tricky bit: use oven gloves to protect your hands and put serving plate on top of Tatin tart.
You should do this operation whle hot, otherwise apples stick on the bottom of the pan during cooling.
You should do this operation whle hot, otherwise apples stick on the bottom of the pan during cooling.
Stage 12 - 1 min.
Turn over smartly...
Stage 13 - 1 min.
... then remove pan: your Tatin is a success!
Stage 14
At my opinion, nothing goes better with warm tart Tatin than a little whipped cream (crème chantilly).
Remarks
The recipe for Tart tatin comes from central France, via the pretty story of the Tatin sisters who ran a restaurant in Lamotte-Beuvron and invented the famous recipe, which now bears their name.
Keeping
Once cooked, a few minutes.
Nutritional information
| Whole recipe | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,533 Kcal or 6,418 Kj | 13 gr | 313 gr | 125 gr |
| 77 % | 5 % | 30 % | 19 % |
| Per 100 g | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 109 Kcal or 456 Kj | 1 gr | 22 gr | 9 gr |
| 5 % | <1 % | 2 % | 1 % |
| Per tart | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Energetic value | Proteins | Carbohydrates | Fats |
| 1,533 Kcal or 6,418 Kj | 13 gr | 313 gr | 125 gr |
| 77 % | 5 % | 30 % | 19 % |
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Source
Home made but after a recipe by Gaston Lenôtre.
This recipe uses (among others)
 | Apple: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Soft apple cookies, Apple crisps, Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake, Caramelized apple rice pudding, Cochelin d'Evreux, ... All |
 | Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Quick Strawberry Millefeuille, Sandwich bread, Gâteau Breton (Brittany butter cake), French Family Cake, Muffin dough, ... All |
 | Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Potato gratin, Eggs "en cocotte" with spinach, Smooth mixed vegetable soup, Brioche galette, Kugelhof for Nanou, ... All |
 | Puff or flaky pastry (pâte feuilletée): You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Smoked salmon sacristains, Tomato and courgette tart, Caramelised apple pie, Crusty pistachio, almond and apricot flan, Pissaladière with puff pastry, ... All |
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- I've actually prepared this exact recipe before from the cookbook. Gee, mine did not look as "pretty" as yours:)Posted by louise may 17th 2009 at 19:04 (n° 1)
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