Apple Tart

Method

1. To make tarts, take butter and icing sugar in a mixing bowl and cream together with a wooden spoon till fluffy. Add egg and mix. Add refined flour and fold in well. Add vanilla essence and mix. Let the mixture rest in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
2. Preheat oven to 180º C. Grease a tart mould.
3. To make almond paste, take butter and sugar in another bowl and cream together with a wooden spoon till fluffy. Add egg and continue to cream for 5 minutes. Add almond powder and mix well.
4. Slice 3 apples and cook them with castor sugar in a non-stick pan till they are soft. Cool and add crumbled vanilla sponge cake and mix well.
5. Line the tart mould with sweet paste dough and half bake for 15-20 minutes.
6. Take the mould out of the oven. Half fill the tart with the almond paste and top with apple-sponge mixture.
7. Cut ½ inch thick slices of the remaining apple and arrange on the top of the tart. Bake the tarts for 15-20 minutes.
8. Take the moulds out of the oven, unmould and arrange on a serving platter. Serve when cooled.

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