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Ingredients
Cheat's puff pastry
- 120 g plain flour, plus extra to dust
- 100 g unsalted butter, chilled, cut into pieces
- 2 pinches sea salt
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 50 g chilled water
Frangipane
- 50 g blanched almonds
- 40 g caster sugar
- 50 g unsalted butter, softened
- 15 g plain flour
- ¼ tsp baking powder
- ⅛ tsp natural almond extract (see Tips)
- 1 egg
- 2 pinches sea salt
Apple topping
- 30 g caster sugar
- 50 g unsalted butter
- ½ vanilla bean, seeds scraped
- 2 pinches ground cinnamon
- 2 - 3 Granny Smith apples, ends trimmed, unpeeled
Assembley
- plain flour, to dust
- maple syrup, to glaze
- ice cream or crème fraiche, to serve
- Nutrition
- per 1 slice
- Calories
- 1477.1 kJ / 353 kcal
- Protein
- 4.3 g
- Carbohydrates
- 30.4 g
- Fat
- 24.4 g
- Saturated Fat
- 13.3 g
- Fibre
- 2.6 g
- Sodium
- 83 mg
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