Easiest Way to Make Tasty Apple Pie with Almond Frangipane

Apple Pie with Almond Frangipane. This apple frangipane tart is a classic French almond tart with a flaky pie crust and beautiul apples on top! Serve as a fancy sliced treat this holiday! Frangipane is decidedly French and particularly traditional around the Christmas holiday.

It is a free form tart which My favorite pie crust to use for this tart is Pate Brisee, which is a French short crust pastry made from a mixture of flour, sugar, salt, unsalted butter. Apple Frangipane Tart: Sweet-crust filled with almond frangipane filling & baked with sliced apples. A classic & elegant to grace any dessert table. You can have Apple Pie with Almond Frangipane using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Apple Pie with Almond Frangipane

1. Prepare of Pastry Dough.
2. It's 1 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
3. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
4. You need 1 cup of water.
5. Prepare 3/4 stick of unsalted butter.
6. You need of Almond Frangipane.
7. You need 8 oz of slivered almonds.
8. It's 1/2 cup of granulated sugar.
9. You need 1 tbsp of orange zest.
10. Prepare 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
11. Prepare 2 of eggs.
12. It's 1/4 stick of unsalted butter.
13. It's of Apple Topping.
14. It's 5 of sliced apples.

A crisp, sweet-crust is filled with rich almond frangipane filling, baked with sliced apples and finished with apricot preserves. Have I told you how much I enjoy making anything that involves a pie crust? You wouldn't think so looking through Cinnamon honey frangipane. Add the cinnamon, egg and almond flour and beat until smooth.

Apple Pie with Almond Frangipane instructions

1. Mix flour and salt..
2. Add butter and cold water to the dough mixture until dough clumps are pea-sized. Place the dough in a refrigerator to chill..
3. Prepare sliced apples. Add citrus to keep the apples from oxidizing..
4. Turn the pastry dough until it forms a ball then roll it out onto a tart or pie pan. Return to chill in the refrigerator..
5. Heat the oven to 375°F..
6. Mix almonds, sugar, orange zest, leftover 1/4 stick of butter, and vanilla extract then blend with eggs..
7. Pour the frangipane filling onto the pastry crust. Wedge the Apple slices into the filling..
8. Placed over a metal tray, bake the pie for approximately 1 1/2 hours or until the pastry dough puffs and the apples turn golden brown. Allow the pie to cool for 30 minutes before serving..
9. Before step 7, bake the crust for 15 minutes prior to adding fillings for a crisper crust..

This Apple Frangipane Tart recipe has lightly sauteed apples and creamy almond filling. I brushed the tart with melted butter, sprinkled on the sugar and almonds and baked it. The wonders of tart pans mean that the tarts come right out of the pan with no effort — and it looks like it came from a French. Goes great with a nice cup of tea, as a dessert, warm or cold with whipped cream or a blob of vanilla ice cream. Some people will call this a flan, or a tart, or even a pie, depending upon where in the world you live.