Tarte Tatin

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    one

    9½ inch tarte
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      30 min

Appears in
German Heritage Baking: Volume 1

By Heidrun Metzler

Published 2024

  • About

While visiting France in my younger years, I had the pleasure of tasting tarte Tatin twice and will never forget it. During cooking, the juices from the apples mix with the fresh caramel to create a syrupy sauce unrivaled by any other apple pie. The tarte is legendary, and there have been many stories about how it originated and why the crust bakes on top of the apples rather than beneath them. According to legend, tarte Tatin originated in the late 1800s, an invention of Stéphanie<