A yummy goodbye with 2 pies
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005Yesterday 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.
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
300 ml flour
2 tbsp caster sugar
125 g butter
1 egg yolk
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.