Baking season is upon us, and I’m ready!! I’m armed with plenty of butter, the freezer is stocked with puff pastry, my vanilla supply is in full force, I’ve stocked my sugar jar and I can’t be stopped! First up this year is this Vanilla Apple Tart.
It’s one of those perfect desserts that you can use any time this fall (along with my mom's famous apple crisp recipe), especially since the ingredients are almost always stocked in the kitchen. Even better, the crust is just a sheet of pre-made puff pastry (that you can find right in the frozen food section), because have you ever tried to make homemade puff pastry!? No one has time for such things! This tart could make an appearance at a dinner party, Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year’s Eve… basically any occasion that calls for a super epic dessert, this is your ticket! And the best part, there is no sharing involved because everyone gets their own! Jackpot.
I’ll be serving it up at our first big dinner party of the season in a few weeks to kick-off Halloween! All of my friends will be there, costumes in tow, and besides our costumes, this dessert will be the highlight of the meal!! And, I’m making a promise to myself right now to keep all dinner parties this season simple. That means making a few really superb dishes and letting them shine. No need to make a billion things - it’s quality over quantity guys!!!
Vanilla Apple Tarts
Ingredients
- 1 sheet Pepperidge Farms puff pastry cut into rectangles
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
- ½ lemon juiced
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 3 whole apples cored, halved and sliced, but not peeled
- 1 tablespoon Land O’ Lakes butter
- Store-bought caramel sauce for serving
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
- Place the puff pastry rectangles onto a silpat lined baking sheet. Add the sugar, salt, lemon juice and vanilla bean seeds to the apples. Stir to combine. Allow to sit for a few minutes.
- Arrange the apple slices on the pastry rectangles in a straight line, overlapping as you go. Dot the top with little bits of the butter. Bake until the pastry is puffed and golden brown, about 20 minutes.
- Remove from the pan immediately and place on a serving platter. Serve with caramel sauce on the side.
Football-watching parties! With all the delicious foods that football season brings.
I love going to brunch with my friends on the weekends. We like to try local small restaurants around Cambridge and Downtown.
My favorite way to spend quality time with friends in the fall is weekend getaways - there's so much to see and do here in the Pacific NW, and fall is a lovely time to do it!
Definitely dinner parties! Love your blog!
Weenie roast over a bonfire.
A Bonfire with lots of fun and festive snacks!!
A bunch of us go for a walk around Horn Pond. The Pond is teeming with wildlife; geese, ducks, swans, egrets, even bald eagles. It's so peaceful and refreshing. Then we come home and have a nice stew and some wine.
So easy, so few ingredients and so yummy! Great recipe!
My favorite fall get together is having a day of the dead celebration. I put up several altars and invite everyone over to view them along with a dinner of my husbands home made mole and tamales.
I'm a big fan of dinner parties!! A group of friends, my hubby and I have a monthly "dinner party" where we take turns hosting. There's always tons of good food, friends and most importantly delicious wine!
I love inviting friends over for a baking party. We crank up the music, grab the butter and bake tons of different kinds of cookies.
I'm looking forward to board games, pumpkin carving, hikes outside and of course watching football!
a big pot of chili and football!
These look absolutely delicious and are oh so cute! Perfect recipe idea after we go apple picking next weekend 🙂 Pinning this for sure!
BBQ's at home with lots and lots of wine is my favorite way to spend time with friends!