Easy French Apple Frangipane Crustless Tart - Recipe Winners (2024)

Easy French Apple Frangipane Crustless Tart is effortless, speedy and a real show stopper that tastes amazing, and looks like you’ve just popped into your local French patisserie for dessert like any self-respecting French person would.

The base of the Easy French Apple Frangipane Crustless Tart is made using sliced brioche loaf that is readily available in most supermarkets. Top the brioche with an almond frangipane mixture and top all of this off with thinly sliced apples, bake and glaze it with a golden lacquer of apricot jam.

This Easy French Apple Frangipane Crustless Tart is autumn in its glory. It slices like an apple dream, and is delicious served warm with a scoop of speckled vanilla bean ice cream, or cold with softly whipped cream which is our preferred way of serving.

What is Brioche?

Brioche is a classic, very rich French bread containing lots of eggs, milk and butter. The high fat contents of these ingredients is what makes this bread so exceptional. The texture is light, soft, airy and fluffy, with a slightly sweet and very buttery flavour. Part bread, and part pastry this is what forms the base for this dessert instead of spending time on making and par baking a pastry case. Win, win!

Have Everything Ready

Frangipane

Frangipane is very easily made, uncomplicated and probably one of the most useful recipes in a cooks baking repertoire. Traditionally soft, room temperature butter is briefly whisked with sugar then eggs, almond meal (flour), and a small amount of flour is added to the mix and lightly beaten, and voila your frangipane is ready to go. Super easy and delicious!

Make the Batter

Apples

There are apples, and apples and with so many varieties world wide it’s best to choose one that holds up well when cooked and doesn’t break down and collapse.

Decorate

Best Apple Varieties for Baking

The best apples for baking need to keep their structure, which keeps the slices of apple from turning into apple mush after a stint in the oven.

• Pink Lady is our apple of choice for two reasons. Firstly it doesn’t oxidise quickly meaning that once you slice them they will hold their colour and not turn all brown and unappetising visually. Secondly, they have a delicious sweetness and crispness to them, and hold up well when baked
• Jonathon, or Jonagold are similar when baked. Both hold their shape well when baked
• Honeycrisp are sweet and are excellent for baking
• Fuji are firm, crisp, juicy and hold up well when baked
• Granny Smith is a universally used baking apple, although is a little tart in our opinion for this tart

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Yield: 10 serves

Easy French Apple Frangipane Crustless Tart

Prep Time: 30 minutes

Cook Time: 45 minutes

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This absolutely French patisserie worthy tart is supremely easy to make. This recipe has been slightly adapted from a Mary Berry recipe. We all know you can entirely trust her recipes.

Ingredients

• 5-6 slices of brioche bread cut into thick sandwich slices (about 1 1/4cm / 1/2 inch)
• 175g softened butter (6 oz) plus extra for buttering the pie dish
• 175g caster sugar (6 oz) plus an extra 1-2 tablespoons for sprinkling over the apple slices before baking
• 175g almond meal (almond flour) (6 oz)
• 3 large eggs
• 25g plain flour or gluten free flour (1 oz)
• 3-4 good sized pink lady apples, cored and thinly sliced with skin on
• 2 tablespoons apricot jam - or strawberry, or raspberry
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice plus 1/4 cup extra caster sugar for tossing apple slices with - optional, see notes

Instructions

preheat oven to 200c (390f) on bake, not fan

1. generously butter a shallow pie plate about 28cm (11 inches) in diameter
2. slice apples thinly either by hand or using a mandolin
3. this step is optional see notes - toss apple slices with lemon juice and 1/4 cup caster sugar and allow to sit for 10 minutes till pieces are slightly softened (you will end up with a few tablespoons of liquid which you don't use) - this step can be omitted altogether - see notes
4. arrange the brioche slices to cover the base, filling in all the gaps, but do not overlap the pieces
5. cream butter and sugar with a hand mixer for 1 minutes till well mixed
6. add the almond meal (almond flour), eggs and flour and beat till incorporated, do not over-mix
7. evenly spread the frangipane mixture over the brioche slices
8. arrange drained apple slices in a concentric pattern on top of the frangipane mixture
9. sprinkle with 1-2 tablespoons of caster sugar
10. TIP - take a piece of handtowel and wipe the excess butter from the side of your pie plate above the batter. This is so the butter doesn't burn and gives your final presentation a much cleaner look.
11. bake on centre shelf for 40-45 minutes or until the batter and apples are a light golden colour and the frangipane is set - you may need to foil the outside rim towards the end of cooking so the apples and batter don't go too dark around the edge
12. remove from oven
13. gently heat the apricot jam with a tablespoon of water over low heat until jam is fluid - you can sieve this if you like
14. brush apricot jam over the apple slices
15. allow to cool or serve warm
16. enjoy!

Notes

• you can skip step 3 altogether if you like. We opted for a fancier look to our finished tart by softening the apple slices in the lemon juice and 1/4 cup of sugar so they were flexible enough to create a rose pattern
• you can instead simply start laying the slices from the outside of your tart dish in a concentric pattern and lay the apple slices on their sides, slightly overlapping each piece for a quicker presentation

Nutrition Information

Yield

10

Serving Size

1
Amount Per Serving Calories 468Total Fat 20gSaturated Fat 6gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 12gCholesterol 118mgSodium 251mgCarbohydrates 64gFiber 7gSugar 25gProtein 12g

Nutritional information provided here is only intended as a guide.