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Apple pie and custard

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09 Oct 2015
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2 min read
Try this delicious modern take on a classic home dessert from one of London’s most creative pastry chefs, Sarah Barber. Exclusively taken from her new pastry book, ‘Patisserie Perfection’, that unravels the mystery of pastry and reveals the secrets behind its artistry…Yum!

Ingredients

Vanilla shortcrust tart

200g TSS soft flour

30g corn starch

70g icing sugar

20g egg yolks

250g butter

2g salt

2 Bourbon vanilla pods.

Apple compote and puree

100g Bramley apples

1g cinnamon

10g caster sugar

2g lemon juice

Crème patissiere

125g whole milk

1 Tahitian vanilla pod

30g caster sugar

10g custard powder

20g egg yolks

Crumble nuggets

125g unsalted butter

125g demerara sugar

187g TSS soft flour

67g ground almonds

2g lemon zest

1g ground cinnamon.

Aerated apple jelly

125g fresh Bramley apple juice

20g caster sugar

5g gelatine

Apple glaze

250g fresh Bramley juice

125g clear neutral glaze

0.2g pistachio green colour

10g gelatine.

Caramelised apples

100g Bramley apple juice

2 Granny Smith apples

200g caster sugar

Method

Vanilla shortcrust tart

Cream the butter and the icing sugar on a mixing machine with a paddle. Sieve the cornstarch, salt and flour together.Add the egg yolks and vanilla pod seeds and mix to a dough.Clingfilm and refrigerate for one hour.Roll the pastry to 1cm depth and line a small tart case.Blind bake at 165°C for 10 minutes.Remove the beans and bake again at 170°C for 5 minutes.Leave to cool.

Apple compote and puree

Peel, core and dice the apples.Place in a large pan with the remaining ingredients. Cook on a medium heat until the apples are soft but still have texture. Blitz some with a hand blender into a compote.Leave to chill and then bag ready for use.For the puree, place the rest into a Thermomix and blend until a smooth paste is formed.Pass through a chinois and chill.

Crème patissiere

Bring the milk and vanilla seeds and pod to the boil. Whisk the sugar, yolks and custard powder. Pass the vanilla milk through a fine chinois over the egg mix and return to the heat. Cook again until boiling, whisking constantly. Spread onto a silicone mat to cool. Clingfilm. Once cold, place in a Thermomix and blitz until smooth, ready to pipe into the tart shells.

Crumble nuggets

Place all the ingredients into a mixing machine with a paddle.Beat together until a crumble is formed. Sprinkle the nuggets onto a tray mat and bake at 165°C for 12 minutes. Leave to cool.

Aerated apple jelly

Place a mixing machine bowl and whisk in the freezer 1 hour prior to use.Bring the juice and sugar to the boil, add the bloomed gelatine and stir well.Pass through a muslin cloth and cool on an ice bath until set. Once set, place in the mixing machine bowl and whisk on high speed until the jelly is aerated and doubled in volume. Pipe into moulds and freeze.

Apple glaze

Bring the juice, glaze and colour to the boil.Once boiling add the bloomed gelatine and pass through a muslin cloth.Chill the mix then use at 18°C to glaze the aerated jellies.

Caramelised apples

Peel and core the apples.Using a prism scoop, make small balls. Make a direct caramel with the sugar. Once dark golden brown, add the apples and cook until evenly coloured and coated in the caramel.Deglaze with the Bramley apple juice. Drain and leave to cool.

Find out more about Sarah Barber and her newbookhere…

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