Apple Tart with Caramel Sauce

Apple Tart

Needed:

• Nonstick Cooking Spray
• 1 Medium-Large Apple
• 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
• 1 Tablespoon Dark Brown Sugar
• 1/2 Cup Raw Almonds
• 1/2 Cup Granulated Sugar
• 3/4 Cup All-Purpose Flour
• 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder
• 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
• 1 Large Egg
• 3/4 Teaspoon Lemon Juice
• 2 1/2 Tabelspoons Butter

1. Mix 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice and 1 Tablespoon Dark Brown Sugar.
2. Peel and slice apples.
3. Toss apples with lemon juice mix. Let sit.

 1. Mix together 1/2 Cup Raw Almonds and 1/2 Cup Sugar in a food processor. (*I used sliced almonds and a blender on pulse, about 25 seconds.) You can start preheating the over to 375 here.

 2. Add 3/4 Cup Flour, 1/2 Teaspoon Baking Powder, 1/4 Teaspoon Salt, 1 Large Egg, 3/4 Teaspoon Lemon Juice, and 2 1/2 Tablespoons of butter (cut up). If using a food processor, pulse until slightly mixed. (At this point, my blender started smoking, so I ended up hand pulsing, which made the mix too mixed. Go light here if you end up hand pulsing.)

 3. Press mix into a tart pan coated with Nonstick Cooking Spray- I only had a dark cake pan on hand.
4. Top with sliced apples in a pretty pattern.
5. Brush apples with extra lemon juice mix.
6. Bake 45 minutes.

Caramel Sauce

Needed:

• 1 Cup Sugar
• 6 Tablespoons Butter
• 1/2 Cup Cream

*It's super important to have all ingrediants pre-measured!

1. In a 2-4 quart pot, put sugar on high and continually stir until it boils. This will take about 3 minutes, and give you a good little arm workout.
2. Once it boils, don't stir but keep it over the heat. Let any remaining sugar clumps boil out. (The longer you keep the sugar on the heat, the darker/richer the sauce will be. I'm talking about a different of about 30 seconds to a minute, though.)
3. Add butter, and swirl the pot around over the heat until butter is melted. Watch the neat reaction between the butter and the boiling sugar!
4. Remove pot from heat and add cream by swirling the pot as you pour cream in.
5. Pour into a glass container to let cool. *Caramel gets VERY hot. Be very careful!

Top cooled tart with cooled sauce, and voila! Let adoring husband/friend/brother do dishes.