If you are looking for something simple but elegant for Thanksgiving this year, this apple cranberry tart might just be the perfect thing!
Apple Cranberry Tart
Ingredients
Scale
- For the pastry:
- 3 C all purpose flour
- 2 T granulated sugar
- 3/4 t salt
- 1 1/2 sticks of unsalted butter
- 6 T solid vegetable shortening – Crisco
- large egg yolk at room temperature
- 2 T fresh lemon juice
- 3 or 4 T ice water
- For the filling:
- 1 12 oz bag of fresh cranberries, rinsed
- 3 Golden Delicious apples, peeled and sliced
- 2 T grated orange peel
- 1 C granulated sugar
- 1 t cinnamon
- 1/2 t nutmeg
- 1/2 C walnuts, chopped
- 1/2 C apple jelly – I used crab apple jelly
- 2 T cornstarch
- 1/4 C orange juice
- to prepare the pastry for the fruit:
- large egg
- 3 T graham cracker crumbs
- for the glaze:
- 1/2 C apple jelly – I used crab apple jelly
- coarse sugar
Instructions
- Pulse together the flour, sugar and salt in a food processor
- Add shortening and butter, pulse until pea sized
- Mix egg yolk, lemon juice and 2 T of ice water and add through the feed tube, pulse a few more times
- Add enough of the remaining ice water through the feed tube so that the dough just starts coming together
- Form into a disk, wrap it in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least 1/2 hour
- Mix the cranberries, apples, orange peel, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, walnuts and 1/2 C apple jelly together in a large bowl
- Mix orange juice and cornstarch together and then mix into the fruit mixture
- Butter a circle about 17 inches round on a piece of aluminum foil, shiny side down
- Flour the edges
- Roll the dough out and place it in the middle of the foil
- Make an egg wash from the egg and 1 t water, brush the pastry, then sprinkle with the graham crumbs
- Pile the fruit on top, turning up the edges of the pastry, folding the aluminum foil to help hold it all together
- Heat the other 1/2 C of jelly in a saucepan until it liquifies, brush the tart with the jelly and then sprinkle with the sugar
- Bake in a preheated oven at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, then lower the heat to 325 and bake another 15 to 25 minutes, watching it carefully
- Remove from the oven when the fruit is soft and the pastry is just beginning to brown
- Serve as is, or cut into little tarts like I did so it’s easier to serve.
This is tart and tangy, not too sweet.
If you cut it into smaller pieces like this, it’s one less thing to worry about when you’re trying to get Thanksgiving dinner on the table.
Adapted from “Pie in the Sky” (one of the best high altitude baking books I’ve ever come across)…
Yum!! ( I tend to say that a lot when I pop over! )
Yes, this would work well at Thanksgiving dinner…or any time :o)
Blessings & Aloha!
Thank you for stopping by!!
This looks and sounds delectable ~ Enjoy and thanks, carol, xxx
Yum! Does that look delicious! Happy Thanksgiving!
Nice pictures, I love your delicious recipe!
That tart looks so yummy.. it sure works well at my house too 🙂
Wow! The ingredients sound like they would create an amazing tart. I would love to have this served to me on Thanksgiving.
What a beautifully exquisite work of art!!! WOW!!! I must try it!!
Looks delicious — the “finished” photo is just beautiful! And I will check into that cookbook — we’re at 7000′
Jeanne
Oh my. That does look delicious!
Oh my, that does sound delicious!
Ha! Didn’t mean to copy Teresa’s comment!!
🙂
Rod forbade me to cook Thanksgiving dinner, because it always wears me out so badly. Instead, we are going to a neighbor’s house, along with a couple of other neighbors. If I WERE cooking, I would definitely make this for dessert!
It doesn’t matter if I visit your blog after a big meal, or before–when I leave, I am always STARVING!!!!
Judie,
I know what you mean. It completely wears me out, but I do love it…
Happy Thanksgiving dear friend,
RMW
Can hardly go wrong with your step-by-step info♪ thanx! http://lauriekazmierczak.com/amazing-grace/
This has all my favorites. A can’t miss. I have a pot luck this would be great for. Thanks.
That looks so yummy! I had to save this one.
Amazing appetizing
Absolutely brilliant!
For me!
I purchased a 40 pound box of apples at Bountiful Baskets this week along with an organic box that contained cranberries!
I am sooooo all over this recipe!
Thanks for (potentially) making me a superstar on Thursday (Unless I botch the recipe!)
Thanks for linking.
A++
PS. I am very thankful our paths have crossed in Blogland. You are an absolutely cool person!
This looks SO good, and yes I AM looking for a recipe of this nature. I may just make this!