Description
Spiced maple syrup with cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, and vanilla envelopes sweet apples in this crisp, warming tart.
Ingredients
Scale
Pie Crust
- Your preferred store bought crust
- Try this made-from-scratch pie crust recipe
- A small amount (~1/2 tbsp) of coarse sugar and cinnamon mixed together for sprinkling
- ~1 tbsp of butter, melted, to brush the edges of the crust
Filling
- 2–4 medium apples, cored and sliced
- 1/2 cup maple syrup (choose high quality, the darker the color the deeper the flavor)
- 3.5 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- A few grinds of black pepper
- A pinch of salt
Instructions
Pie Crust
- Thaw and unroll pie crust according to package instructions, or make according to your favorite crust recipe if making from scratch.
- Move onto the filling when you have your dough thawed, flat on a parchment-paper-lined baking sheet and ready to go.
Filling
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Heat maple syrup in a small pot or saucepan over medium-high heat, or until the syrup begins to bubble.
- Add cinnamon, nutmeg, black pepper, and your 4 tbsp of butter to the syrup. Stir thoroughly until the butter is melted. Reduce to a low simmer and let the spices infuse for about 2 minutes.
- Spoon about 1/2 of the syrup onto the pie dough and spread around evenly. I like to spread the syrup all the way out to the edges so that even if I have a bite of just crust, I still get a bit of that spiced maple flavor.
- Arrange your apple slices in an aesthetic pattern.
- Pour/drizzle the rest of the spice maple syrup evenly over the top of the apples.
- Fold the edges of the pie dough over the filling.
- Brush the crust edges with melted butter, and sprinkle very lightly with a little bit of your sugar & cinnamon mixture.
- Pop the tart in the oven for roughly 30 minutes until the dough is fully baked (check for lightly golden edges).
- Remove from oven, and serve!