Apple Crisp Tart

Category: Desserts & Sweets | Blog URL: http://ifreelance.com/pro/7958

This recipe was entered in The Foodista Best of Food Blogs Cookbook contest, a compilation of the world’s best food blogs which was published in Fall 2010.

Photo: flickr user norwichnuts

Ingredients

4 Apples, Peeled (Jazz or Fuji brand) and chopped

1 cup Sugar

1/2 cup Brown Sugar

3 tablespoons Heaping All Purpose Flour

1/4 cup Pear Juice or Apple Juice

1/2 teaspoon Penzy's Baking Spice Mix*

1 teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract

1/4 teaspoon Lemon Peel

1 teaspoon Cinnamon Sugar Mix

2 tablespoons Unsalted Butter (Cold and Chopped)

Double Pie Curst Recipe

Sparkling White Sugar (King Arthur Flour products) for topping

tablespoon Egg Wash (1 Tbs water plus Egg White)

Pie Crust:

2 cups All Purpose Flour

3/4 cup Solid Shortening

1/2 teaspoon Salt

7 tablespoons Cold Water

1 teaspoon White Vinegar

Preparation

In a large bowl, mix apples, white and brown sugars, flour, pear juice, Baking Spice Mix, vanilla, lemon peel, and Cinnamon Sugar Mix. Set aside. Crust: Combine flour and salt in a bowl; cut in shortening with a pastry blender until crumbly. Make a well in the middle and add the combined water/vinegar mix. Knead together; wrap and chill crust for 15 minutes. Roll out crust in a large circle on pastry cloth; transfer to non-stick baking sheet (or spray with oil). Pour filling in center of crust but do not overfill to edge of crust - leave enough room to fold crust over half of

You can use a mixture of Allspice, Mace, and Cinnamon.

This is a specialty item - you can substitute by sprinkling with additional cinnamon sugar mix.