Iām back! I have been very very busy for a while – I still am to be honest- and it has been very difficult to sit down and write recipes, but I need to find a way to do everything. Maybe at a slow pace but still. This recipe is lovely, it combines apples, cardamom and caramel – how could it possibly not be delicious? Please let me know if you try it! Happy new year!

Recipe for 4 tartlets
Sable
160 g flour
100 g butter – it should be cold and cubed, I usually like the vegan block one for this kind of pastry because itās harder and works better
60 g icing sugar
40 g almond flour
Pinch of salt
Zest 1 lemon
40g melted vegan white chocolate
1/2 tbsp almond milk
Mix flour and butter until the texture resembles breadcrumbs. Add the icing sugar, almond flour salt and lemon zest and mix. Finally add the melted chocolate and bring together the pastry quickly, add the milk if needed. Rest in fridge for 1h. Roll out and line the tart tin, you will not need to poke holes as sable pastry doesnāt puff in the oven. Freeze for 30ā then bake at 170ā fan with baking beans for 10-15ā and 30 more minutes at 155 fan without the beans.
Caramel sauce
70g light brown
28g vegan butter
40ml vegan heavy cream
While the pastry shells are baking, make the caramel. Put half of the sugar in a heavy bottom saucepan on the stove and do not touch it until it starts melting. Remove from stove and stir in the rest of the sugar, mixing well before returning to the stove and not touching until the sugar melts. Once melted and bubbly, stir in the vegan butter and mix quickly with a balloon whisk. Finally, remove from the stove and stir in the heavy cream. Pour in a glass container and set aside until ready to use. I let my caramel always rest a couple of hours in the fridge.
Creme pat cardamom
320g almond milk
100g sugar
Zest 1 lemon
1 tsp turmeric
30g cornflour
10 cardamom pods crushed
Warm the milk with the cardamom pods. Let sit for 1h. Discard the pods, warm the milk again and then pour on the sugar turmeric and cornflour mix. Whisk well and return to heat. Keep whisking until it thickens, remove from the flame and whisk for a couple extra minutes.
Apple Mousse
30g water + 2 g potato protein mix and let set in the fridge
100g apple compote
10g caster sugar
1 tsp NH pectin
10g coconut oil (odourless)
Pinch of xanthan gum
Pinch of baking soda
Pinch of cream of tartar
20g sugar
While the potato protein mix with the xanthan gum, baking soda and cream of tartar. Add the sugar little by little.
Heat the compote with the sugar and the pectin until it reaches 80C, then set aside and let cool.
Incorporate the cream in the whipped āwhitesā. Pipe in the moulds and freeze for 4h before un moulding.
Assemble:
Pipe the caramel in the baked shell and let set 30ā. Then pipe the pastry cream and let set 30ā. Put the mousse semi sphere on top and decorate with apple stripes (I have cooked them quickly to make them soft but not too soft). Glaze with apricot jam heated with a splash of water if too thick.
4 replies on “Apple, cardamom and caramel tartlets (vegan)”
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Looks so delicious and quite special!
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Ohh thank you Dorothy!
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