"DIDN'T GO AS I PLANNED"-APPLE TART

There is a saying in Finland “didn’t go as in Strömsö” which might not open up to you if you have never seen the TV-show Strömsö. Anyway, as you might guess, the meaning behind of this saying lies in failing. You see an interesting recipe, you try it, and you fail. Nice, isn’t it?

We had a great plan to make some tart, drink sparkling wine and enjoy the Saturday evening. The wine disappeared quite quickly; however, our apple tart was just confusing.  The failure in this baking-event was that we tried to make nice cupcake size apple tarts but the tart came out looking like small mushroom pie.

The visual output of any food, as well as the smell of them, is a major part of the experience. Therefore, if you see something that you associate immediately with mushrooms, it is quite confusing when the product itself tastes like apple tart.     

The taste of the tart was quite nice still and anything in a size of a cupcake is always cute. So if you want to try it yourself, and improve the visual output, here’s the recipe.

Cupcake apple tart (12 piece)

• 100 g butter
• 1 dl sugar
• 1 egg
• 3 dl wheat flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

For the filling:

• 1 big apple
• cinnamon
• 250 g sour cream
• 1 egg
• 1-2 tablespoon of sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla sugar

Warm the butter till room temperature. Froth the butter and sugar. Add egg. 

Add the flour and baking powder and mix. Divide the dough 12 cupcake tins.

For the filling: Dice the apples for small pieces and marinade them in cinnamon. (However, the dices seems to be the main point of confusing the tart with mushrooms, so maybe you want to try something else) Put the apples on top of the dough.

Mix the sour cream (you can also use cream cheese), egg and sugars together and pour it on top of the apples.

Bake in 200 Celcius for 30 minutes.