Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Recipe ⬇️ or print: recipetineats.com/easy-french-apple-tart
The world’s easiest apple tart is French - and it even comes with a fancy name: Tarte Fine aux Pommes. This charming puff pastry dessert calls for just four ingredients (puff pastry, apples, sugar, butter), twelve minutes effort. and suddenly you're in a rustic farmhouse in Provence, living your best effortlessly-chic French countryside life!
Straight from our French Chef JB, to you. Hope you love it! - Nagi x
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French Apple Tart (Tarte Fine aux Pommes)
1 square sheet butter puff pastry (25cm / 10″ square), barely thawed
5 tsp caster sugar / superfine sugar (sub regular / granulated)
2 large gala apples (or 3 medium), or other apple of choice, peeled, cut in half, core removed, sliced 0.5cm / 0.2″ thick
1 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
FOR SERVING:
Icing sugar/powdered sugar, for dusting (optional)
Vanilla ice cream (not really optional!)
Sprinkle 3tsp sugar on paper in the shape of the puff pastry. Place puff on the sugar, fold in 1cm / 0.4" edge. Prick base with fork to stop from puffin g up (not edge), lay 3 rows of apple slightly overlapping. Brush butter and sprinkle 2t sugar over apple and edge. Bake on preheated tray at 210°C/375°F (190°C fan) for 30 minutes or until edge is very golden and apple edges are light golden.
Recipe ⬇️ or print: recipetineats.com/easy-french-apple-tart
The world’s easiest apple tart is French - and it even comes with a fancy name: Tarte Fine aux Pommes. This charming puff pastry dessert calls for just four ingredients (puff pastry, apples, sugar, butter), twelve minutes effort. and suddenly you're in a rustic farmhouse in Provence, living your best effortlessly-chic French countryside life!
Straight from our French Chef JB, to you. Hope you love it! - Nagi x
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French Apple Tart (Tarte Fine aux Pommes)
1 square sheet butter puff pastry (25cm / 10″ square), barely thawed
5 tsp caster sugar / superfine sugar (sub regular / granulated)
2 large gala apples (or 3 medium), or other apple of choice, peeled, cut in half, core removed, sliced 0.5cm / 0.2″ thick
1 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
FOR SERVING:
Icing sugar/powdered sugar, for dusting (optional)
Vanilla ice cream (not really optional!)
Sprinkle 3tsp sugar on paper in the shape of the puff pastry. Place puff on the sugar, fold in 1cm / 0.4" edge. Prick base with fork to stop from puffin g up (not edge), lay 3 rows of apple slightly overlapping. Brush butter and sprinkle 2t sugar over apple and edge. Bake on preheated tray at 210°C/375°F (190°C fan) for 30 minutes or until edge is very golden and apple edges are light golden.
