Apple pie with almond paste and walnuts
Yesterday afternoon I went to work for my last
fika and to say goodbye to everyone at the IT department. But actually the real leave-taking will be tomorrow night, at home of one of my colleagues where we’ll all have dinner due to the fact that 4 of us have left the department and company. If anyone is curious it is now official that I have accepted and signed a contract for my former employer, beginning from January 1st. I could, if I wanted to, start earlier. But as I still get salary from my old company until the last of January, I prefer to have some time off. Until January I will, as I wrote earlier, take care of myself and the family – including the cats :-)
Yesterday to the fika I brought with me luke warm pies: a lemon tart and an apple pie with almond paste and walnuts. They seemed to be a success and I will surely bake them more times. The lemon tart is a variation of the Passion Fruit Tart that I’ve made earlier, the original recipe for the lemon tart in Swedish can be found here at Arla’s homepage. It’a both sweet and tangy, and tastes really refreshing. The apple pie is from the book Äppelkakor by Ann-Kristin Hallgren, and the recipe was published in Swedish on Aftonbladet’s homepage. This apple pie isn’t so sweet and is excellent with a cup of coffee; it has a nice taste of almond paste and walnuts which is a great combination with the apples and the pie crust.
Lemon tart
Apple pie with almond paste and walnuts
2 large apples
CRUST:
400 ml flour
0.5 tsp baking soda
3 tbsp caster sugar
150 gram butter
GARNISH:
1 tbsp coursly chopped walnuts
WALNUT FILLING:
200 gram almond paste
2 eggs
100 ml finely chopped walnuts
100 gram butter, room temperatured
1. Heat the oven to 200°C.
2. Combine the dry ingredients for the crust and mix with the butter, until you get a dough. Let it rest in the fridge for a while.
3. Roll out the dough and then cover a spring form with it. The author recommends a rectangular spring form, but I used a normal round one and it worked fine.
4. Grate the almond paste, whip the eggs lightly and then combine all the ingredients for the filling. Pour (or actually place, as it’s rather firm) the filling into the crust.
5. Wash the apples, remove the seeds and divide them into halves. Slice the apples thinly and arrange them in the filling making a nice pattern.
6. Sprinkle the walnuts over the pie.
7. Bake the pie for about 25 minutes (my oven is a bit weird, so I had to increase the time).
Apple pie with almond paste and walnuts, ready to bake in the oven.CRUST:
300 ml flour
2 tbsp caster sugar
125 g butter
1 egg yolk
FILLING:
3 eggs
200 ml caster sugar
200 ml double/whipping cream
2 tbsp flour
1 tsp vanilla sugar
zest and juice from 1 lemon (if you want you can add one lime as well)
Combine the flour, sugar and butter to a grainy mixture. Add the egg yolk, work into the flour mixture to form a soft dough. Knead briefly and press the dough over the bottom and sides of a tart pan. Place the pan in the fridge for 30 minutes.Heat the oven to 200 °C. Beat the eggs and the sugar until light. Add the remaining ingredients. Pour the filling into the crust. Bake in the bottom part of the oven for about 30 minutes (as usual longer in my oven). Let the tart cool and then garnish with icing sugar.
Lemon tart. You can add some passionfruit to the filling to get a passion fruit tart instead.
