Warm Apple Tart with Date Ice Cream and Red Wine-Caramel Sauce

Name: Warm Apple Tart with Date Ice Cream and Red Wine-Caramel Sauce
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 4 Tbsps butter; 397 grams dried dates, pitted and chopped; 1 egg yolk; 6 egg yolks; 296 milliliters flour; 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled and cut into 20 thin slices; 177 milliliters half-and-half; 355 milliliters heavy cream; 3 Tbsps ice water; 177 milliliters milk; 177 milliliters chopped pecans; 237 milliliters red wine; 1 teaspoons salt; 355 milliliters sugar; 1 Pulp of vanilla bean

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Warm Apple Tart with Date Ice Cream and Red Wine-Caramel Sauce From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 45 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. Head to the store and pick up milk, egg yolks, salt, and a few other things to make it today. Summer will be even more special with this recipe.

Instructions

To prepare the ice cream: Prepare an ice water bath.

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Ice Cream

Water

Place the dates, vanilla bean pulp, heavy cream, half-and-half, and milk in a medium saucepan and bring to a simmer over medium heat.

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Vanilla Bean

Heavy Cream

Dates

Milk

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Sauce Pan

Whisk the egg yolks in a large bowl and slowly pour in the hot cream mixture. Puree the cream mixture until smooth, return to the saucepan, and cook for 3 minutes, stirring constantly. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve, and cool in the ice water bath. Freeze in an ice cream machine and keep frozen until ready to use.

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Egg Yolk

Ice Cream

Water

Cream

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Ice Cream Machine

Sauce Pan

Sieve

Whisk

Bowl

To prepare the dough: Using an electric mixer or by hand, combine the flour, butter, sugar, and salt in a large bowl until pebble-sized balls form.

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Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Salt

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Hand Mixer

Bowl

Add the egg yolk and water all at one time and mix until the dough just comes together.

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Egg Yolk

Dough

Water

Remove the dough from the mixer, pat into a disc, and cover with plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.

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Dough

Wrap

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Plastic Wrap

Blender

Place the sugar in a medium saucepan and cook over medium-low heat for 10 minutes, or until golden brown.

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Sugar

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Sauce Pan

Add the butter and vanilla pulp and cook for 2 minutes.

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Vanilla

Butter

Add the apple wedges and cook for 4 to 6 minutes or until the apples are half cooked.

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Apple

Remove the apples from the caramel and reserve both separately.

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Caramel

Apple

To prepare the tart: Preheat the oven to 350°F.

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Oven

Roll out the dough to 1/8 inch thick and carefully press into an 8- or 9-inch tart ring, trimming any excess.

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Dough

Roll

Place the tart ring on a parchment-lined sheet pan and sprinkle 1/2 cup of the chopped pecans in the bottom of the shell. Pinwheel the apple slices in the tart and brush with some of the caramel sauce.

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Pecan Pieces

Caramel Sauce

Apple

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Frying Pan

Bake the tart for 20 to 30 minutes, or until golden brown.

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Oven

Place the red wine in a small saucepan and simmer over medium heat for 20 minutes, or until reduced to 1/4 cup.

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Red Wine

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Sauce Pan

Add the remaining caramel sauce to the red wine reduction and whisk until smooth. Fold in the remaining 1/4 cup of pecans and keep warm.

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Caramel Sauce

Reduction

Red Wine

Pecans

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Whisk

Cut the tart into 8 pieces and place a piece in the center of each plate. Spoon the red wine-caramel sauce around the tart and top the tart with a scoop of the date ice cream.

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Caramel Sauce

Ice Cream

Red Wine

Dates

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