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rustic apple My fondness for whisky
started well before finding
tartlets myself on my own – no
surprise then that I love it
in this spiked ice cream,
the perfect foil for the easy,
with no-churn ginger & whisky ice cream rustic apple tartlets.
Makes 6 For the no-churn ginger & whisky ice cream, whip the cream to
soft peaks in a large bowl. Add the sweetened condensed milk
No-churn ginger & whisky and salt and beat together until thick and well combined. Add
ice cream: the ginger and whisky, beat together then pour into a 1.25 litre
500ml (1 pint) cream (heavy (2½ pint) container. Cover and freeze for 6 hours or overnight.
whipping cream)
½ cup sweetened condensed Preheat the oven to 200˚C (400˚F) and put a baking tray in the
milk oven to heat up. Roll out the pastry if necessary and trim it into
1 /8 tsp salt six 12cm (5 in) squares. Place the pastry squares on a piece of
⅓ cup finely chopped baking paper and refrigerate while preparing the apples. Peel,
crystallised ginger halve and core the apples, then slice them finely. Toss the apples
¼ cup whisky in the lemon juice, zest and 2 tablespoons of the caster sugar.
Mark a 1cm (½ in) border around the edges of the pastry with
Rustic apple tartlets: the tip of a sharp knife and prick inside the borders lightly
360g (12½ oz) ready rolled with the tines of a fork. Arrange the apples in overlapping half
butter puff pastry moons in the pattern of your choice – they don't have to be
3 Granny Smith apples too perfect. Brush the apples and pastry edges with butter then
2 tbsp lemon juice sprinkle the remaining caster sugar over the apples. Slide the
finely grated zest of 1 lemon pastry squares on the baking paper onto the hot oven tray and
3 tbsp caster sugar bake for 20-25 minutes – keeping an eye on any oven hot spots
1 tbsp melted butter so that your pastry cooks evenly around the edges. Rest for
icing (powdered) sugar a few minutes before serving with a light dusting of icing sugar
for dusting and no-churn ginger & whisky ice cream.
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