Vegan gluten free cinnamon apple tart

I was raised with apple tarts !

My parents had a huge garden with many apple trees and in autumn we would go and pick up all the apples from the trees we would stock up and eat throughout the year 🙂

I miss those 100 % organic and so flavorful apples. Today apples are such a controversial fruit. “An apple a day should keep the doctor away”, right ? but when you learn that apples rank as the 4th worst fruit to eat given all the chemicals they are sprayed with, to grow and last longer… I am always careful when I buy and use some, and probably eat much less apples then I used too …

But today we were in the mood for apple tart. It is freezing (Singapore style, ie 22/24 degrees 🙂 ) and so grey that comforting treats have to be on the menu !

This tart is quite healthy as the crust is GF and vegan, and the apples are just lightly brushed with lemon and maple syrup.

Recipe just below so you can also spoil yourself with this delight.

Enjoy 🙂

INGREDIENTS

CRUST:

• 90 grs GF oat flour
• 130 grs almond flour
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• 3 tbsp maple syrup
• 1/4 cup coconut oil

FILLING:

• 4 to 5 apples (I used pink ladies).
• 3 tbsp lemon juice
• 2 tbsp maple syrup
• a handfull raisins
• cinnamon

DIRECTIONS 

CRUST

1. Preheat the oven to 170 °C fan forced
2. Combine the almond flour, oat flour, salt in a bowl. Drizzle in the coconut oil and maple syrup and stir until you get a dough consistency.
3. Spread the dough using your fingers in a pie pan, lined with baking paper or on a baking tray lined with paper. (You can roll it toping it with a second sheet of baking paper to avoid it sticks to the pastry roll).
4. Make holes using a fork to avoid getting bubbles and put the dough to bake for 10 min (corners should start getting a little brown)

FILLING

1. Peel and cut the apples. Marinate them in the lemon juice and maple syrup combo.
2. Spread them on the dough, dust with a little cinnamon, sprinkle some raisins and bake for 25 min. Brush them with more maple and lemon mix and bake again for 15 min
3. Take it out, add a little more cinnamon (if you are a cinnamon lover like me 🙂 and eat warm with a scoop of plant based yogurt or cream, or on its own 🙂