Apple Cream Tart
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Ingredients
  • Tart Shell
  • ½cup Butter
  • ⅓cup Sugar
  • ½tspn Vanilla
  • 1 cup Flour
  • Cream Filling
  • 1 egg
  • ½ tsp Vanilla
  • 8 ounces Softened Cream Cheese
  • ¼ cup Sugar
  • Topping
  • 3 Apples (peeled and thinly sliced)
  • ¼ cup Sugar
  • ½ tsp Cinnamon
  • ¼ cup Slivered Almonds or Chopped Walnuts
  • Lemon juice
Instructions
  1. Mise En Place ~ Gather Ingredients
  2. Tart Shell
  3. Preheat the oven to 400°F/200°C.
  4. Make the crust, cream the butter and sugar.
  5. Stir in the vanilla.
  6. Gently mix in the flour.
  7. Press into the bottom of an 8-inch/20-cm spring-form pan, giving it about an inch/2.5cm rim.
  8. Bake for about 15minutes until golden.
  9. Remove from the oven.
  10. Cream Filling
  11. Beat all the ingredients for the cream filling together until smooth.
  12. Make the topping by tossing the apple slices with the cinnamon, sugar and nuts.
  13. Remove the tart shell from the oven. Spread over the cream mixture.
  14. Topping
  15. Arrange the apple slices on top, then scatter over the nuts.
  16. Bake until apples are tender and golden about 40minutes.
Notes
I added some lemon juice to the slices of apples to keep them from turning brown. Also, I added a pinch of salt since I used unsalted butter to the crust and a small pinch to the filling. Salt enhances the sweetness.
Recipe by Make Mine Lemon at https://www.makeminelemon.com/apple-cream-tart/