Apple Tarts and Whole Wheat Sour Cream Crust
You could say I’m an appleholic (is that even a word? probably not.ehm) I add apples to pretty much everything I cook, bake or create( Have you tried necklace from apple seeds? I found them be extremaly fashionable in 90’s- my high school years). Back to eating apples. My morning yogurt has chunks of apples in it. I add apples to roasted vegetables, to salads, even to my creamy potato salad and risotto. They’ve become such a staple in my cooking, like olive oil. I can’t imagine not having them around when I create.
Lately I’ve been playing with different pie crust recipes and I stumbled upon a sour cream crust recipe, so here is my tweaked version. I haven’t used it to make a pie, so I’m not sure how it behaves in a pie version. I’ve only made small tarts with it and they came out nice and flaky.
Sour Cream Whole Wheat Crust (single 9inch pie crust)
3/4 cup all purpose flour
1/2 whole wheat pastry flour
1tbl brown sugar
1/4tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)
1/4 tsp salt
1stick butter, chilled and cut in cubes
1/4 cup cold sour cream
1tsp chilled water
- Using a food processor, process flours, salt, sugar, cinnamon and baking soda until combined
- Add chilled butter and pulse until coarse mixture forms, you want to see large, approximately bean size butter pieces. Stop pulsing now.
- Add sour cream and 1tsp chilled water and pulse until mixture will start to come together. Don’t over mix. You want be able to see pieces of butter.
- Gather dough together gently and form a disk.
- Wrap the disk with plastic wrap and chill for an hour.
Apple Tarts
4fresh apples, cored and cut into wedges
1/4 cup brown sugar or as desired
1tsp tsp cinnamon
1tbl lemon juice
pinch of ginger
- Preheat oven to 385F
- Season apples with sugar, cinnamon, lemon juice and ginger.
- Roll chilled sour cream crust between 2 pieces of wax/parchment paper.
- Using a pastry wheel cut out rectangles.
- Layer apples on top of rectangles.
- Fold the edges inward.
- You can now rung your raviolli wheel over the edges, or use your fingers to press the edges down.
- Bake until edges are golden and apples are soft. 15-20 minutes
Before I go about my day, leaving you with a hint of cinnamon aroma and smell of freshly baked apple tarts I wanted to share with you some fun news.
Few weeks ago I received an email from BlueStar , they’ve announced their Top 100 Foodie Blogger of 2012, including Haniela’s. I’ve never been on any kind of list like this before so I guess it is appropriate to get excited, right! If you don’t know what BlueStar is, or what they make here is a little info about them.
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This sums it for today. See you soon.
