Bourbon Bacon Apple Tarts

Name: Bourbon Bacon Apple Tarts
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 slices bacon; 60 milliliters bourbon, plus 1 tablespoon; 110 grams brown sugar; 3 Tbsps butter; 2 strips bacon, cooked and crumbled; 3 Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and diced; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 119 milliliters heavy cream; 1 lemon, juiced; 2 Tbsps maple syrup; 1 Tbsp powdered sugar; 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed; 3 Tbsps raw sugar; 1 pinch Pinch salt

Bourbon Bacon Apple Tarts requires approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes from start to finish. One serving contains 169 calories, 2g of protein, and 9g of fat. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 24. If you have puff pastry, ground cinnamon, salt, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Mini Spiced Apple Tarts with Chocolate, Wildwood Ovens Bourbon Apple Glazed Cedar Plank Salmon, and Chocolate Coconut Tarts.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

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Put a baking rack onto a baking sheet. Spray the rack with nonstick cooking spray and lay the bacon on the rack in a single layer.

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Cooking Spray

Bacon

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Baking Sheet

Sprinkle with 1/2 of the raw sugar.

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Raw Sugar

Put the pan in oven and bake for 8 minutes. Flip the bacon and sprinkle it with the remaining sugar. Return to the oven and bake until the bacon is browned and crisp, another 8 minutes.

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Bacon

Sugar

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Oven

Frying Pan

Remove the bacon from rack, transfer to a plate, and set it aside to cool completely. Once cool, break the candied bacon into small shards to use for a garnish on the tarts and reserve.

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Bacon

Unfold the puff pastry onto a lightly floured surface and roll the sheet out slightly. Using a 2-inch round biscuit cutter, cut out 24 rounds.

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Puff Pastry Sheets

Biscuits

Roll

Place the rounds on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Top with a baking rack to help keep the rounds uniform and even as they bake.

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Oven

Bake in the preheated oven until the rounds are golden brown, about 12 minutes. When done remove them from the oven and set aside to cool.

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Oven

In a medium bowl, add the diced apples and toss with the lemon juice.

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Lemon Juice

Apple

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Bowl

Add the cinnamon, maple syrup, 1/4 cup bourbon, butter, and brown sugar to the apples, and stir to combine. In a large skillet, heat the apple mixture over medium-low heat. Cook until the apples are tender and the liquid has thickened, about 10 to 12 minutes. Set aside to cool.

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Brown Sugar

Maple Syrup

Cinnamon

Bourbon

Apple

Butter

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Frying Pan

Mix the 2 slices cooked and crumbled bacon into the apple filling.

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Real Bacon Pieces

Apple

In a large, chilled bowl combine the heavy cream, powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon bourbon. Whip with a hand mixer to soft peaks.

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Powdered Sugar

Heavy Cream

Bourbon

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Using the tip of a spoon, carefully remove a little circle of puff pastry from the center of each tart round, creating a well. Fill each pastry with 1 tablespoon of the apple filling.

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Puff Pastry Sheets

Apple

Put the filled tarts on a serving platter. Top with a dollop of whipped cream and garnish with a shard of the candied bacon.

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Whipped Cream