Individual Apple Rum Raisin Tartlets Recipes

RUM TARTS AKA BUTTER TARTS

Steps:

• Place tart shells on cookie sheet.
• Add enough raisins to each tart shell to cover the bottom of the tart.
• Beat egg.
• In sauce pan add brown sugar, cream and butter.
• Heat until butter is melted.
• Add rum.
• Pour small amount of mixture into beaten egg to temper the eggs.
• Add egg mixture back into brown sugar mixture.
• Stir well to combine mixture and egg.
• Pour into tart shells, enough to cover the raisins.
• Bake at 350° until golden brown and bubbling.
• Let cool completely, at least 15 minutes.

RAISIN APPLE TARTLETS

Steps:

• In a large skillet, cook the apples, brown sugar, raisins and cinnamon in butter over medium heat until tender. Stir in flour until blended. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 1 minute or until thickened. Spoon into shells. Serve warm or chilled.

MINI APPLE,RUM AND RAISIN PIES

Steps:

• For the pastry, Combine the flour,sugar and butter together. Rub with your fingetips until breadcrumbs and then add the egg. Using a knife bind it all together, then using your hands shape into a ball. Place in fridge to chill for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, Place the raisins and rum into a bowl and leave to soak for about 5 minutes. Add the apple, sugar and spices to a seperate bowl and after soaking add the raisins, using your hands mixed it all together. Put to one side for now.
• Once chilled, take the pastry out of the fridge and roll out just a tiny bit thinner than a 1 pound coin ( if too thin it will go soggy and leak through at the bottom). Using a cutter cut out the circles just bigger than the cupcake cases and place carefully in the case leaving a slight over hang around the edges. Take a tbsp of the mixer making sure there is equal amounts of raisin and apple in each, place in each case. Leaving the liquid in the bowl. Don't worry if there's left overs as this is what will make the sauce.
• Re-roll the pastry and cut out slighter smaller circles with a cutter, for the lids. Place ontop of the pie mixtures folding the overhanging pastry over the top and sealing with fingers. Make sure there are no holes. For the sauce add the left over mixture to a seperate pan and spread evenly.
• Pierce each pie with a knife in the middle and sprinkle for a bit of extra sugar. Cook them on 180C/356F for 25-30mins on the middle shelf until a crisp golden brown( after 13 minutes place the left over mixture on the shelf below) place the pies on wrack to cool slighty. Quickly place the mixture into a bowl leaving any juice, and put the rum into the pan along with the water and using scraper or spatula scrape the remains off the bottom. Pour into the bowl and place in microwave for 30 seconds. Serve with pies.
• You could even have icecream or custard too.

RUM-RAISIN APPLE PIE

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine raisins and rum. Bring to a boil. Remove from the heat; let stand for 30 minutes., In a large bowl, combine the apples, raisin mixture and vanilla. Combine the brown sugar, flour, lemon zest, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg; sprinkle over fruit and toss lightly., Line a 9-in. pie plate with bottom crust; trim even with edge of plate. Add filling; dot with butter. Roll out remaining dough to fit top of pie; place over filling. Trim, seal and flute edges. Cut slits in top. Brush milk over pastry; sprinkle with sugar., Place pie plate on a baking sheet. Bake at 425° for 20 minutes. Reduce heat to 375°; bake 30-40 minutes longer or until crust is golden brown and filling is bubbly. Cool on a wire rack.

INDIVIDUAL HONEYCRISP APPLE TARTS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Set out two 6-ounce ramekins.
• Place puff pastry sheet on a work surface and let thaw for just 5 minutes; it should still be partially frozen and very firm. Use a round pastry cutter the same diameter as your ramekins to cut out 2 rounds of dough. Transfer to the prepared baking sheet. Prick each pastry round all over with a fork.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the pastries are puffed up and the bottoms are golden brown, about 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and slide parchment paper off the baking pan onto a work surface; press warm pastries down lightly with the back of a fork to deflate them a bit. Let cool.
• Increase the oven temperature to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Mix brown sugar, white sugar, a pinch of cinnamon, and a very small pinch of salt together in a bowl.
• Use 1 1/2 teaspoons butter to generously grease the bottom and sides of each ramekin. Spoon the sugar mixture evenly into each ramekin, reserving about 1 1/2 teaspoons for later. Shake ramekins gently to settle and flatten the sugar mixture.
• Fill a bowl with 3 cups cold water. Add lemon juice.
• Turn one apple on its side; trim about 1/4 inch off the top and bottom of the apple, then cut it in half through the center. Repeat with the second apple.
• Peel around the apple halves to remove the peel; discard. Continue to peel the flesh, making ribbons as long and as thick as possible until you reach the core, letting the ribbons drop into the water. As long as your ribbons are 3- to 4-inches long, that's fine.
• Pull out 3 to 4 of the longest ribbons and line them up on a work surface into one long ribbon, overlapping the ends an inch or so. Roll the ribbon up tightly to form the center of the tart, then turn it up on its end. Coil more ribbons around the center, overlapping as you go, until you have a coil that's the same diameter as your ramekin. Pick up the apple coil and place it into the ramekin, with the flat side on top of the sugar. Repeat to make the second tart.
• Dot 1/2 teaspoon butter over each tart, then sprinkle with the remaining sugar mixture. Top each tart with a pastry round, placing the fork-poked side down on the apples.
• Bake in the preheated oven until pastries have browned and juices are bubbling, about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and press the hot pastries down gently with a fork. Let cool for about 10 minutes.
• Run a knife around each pastry, then turn over onto serving plates. Use a spoon to go around each tart to separate the layers and create more definition, if desired.

PECAN, APPLE AND RAISIN TARTLETS WITH RUM CREAM

Steps:

• Combine apples, brown sugar, raisins, water and 1 tablespoon rum in heavy medium saucepan. Cover and cook over medium heat until apples are tender, stirring until occasionally, about 15 minutes. Cool apple mixture completely.
• Preheat oven to 400°F. Roll out pastry to 10-inch square. Cut out four 4 1/2-inch pastry rounds, using 1-pound coffee can or individual tart pan bottom as guide (reserve remaining pastry for another use). Press 1 tablespoon pecans in center of each round, leaving border. Transfer rounds to baking sheet. Spoon 1/4 of apple mixture onto each round, leaving 1/2-inch border.
• Bake tartlets until brown on bottom and puffed at edges, about 20 minutes. Let cool 15 minutes. Beat cream, powdered sugar and remaining 1 tablespoon rum in medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Serve tartlets with rum cream.