Tart: Apple Cream Cheese

By fsilver4

This recipe has a fabulous cookie crust that can be made for any tart.

Ingredients

• Crust:
• 1/2 cup butter (l stick) softened
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup flour
• Filling:
• 8 oz softened cream cheese
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• Topping:
• 3 unpeeled thinly slice apples
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup slivered almonds

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven 400*
Grease an 8inch tart pan

Crust:

With mixer cream butter and sugar, then add vanilla and stir in flour. Bake in oven l5 minutes or until golden.

Filling:

Beat cream cheese, sugar and egg with wisk and add vanilla until smooth, then spread onto baked tart crust.

Topping:

Mix all ingredients together in bowl. Lay out apples in a pretty spiral on cream cheese mixture , sprinkle with nuts. Bake 40 minutes.

(Optional: Once it's completely cool, glaze using a pastry brush mixed with currant jelly and water)