Apple Crumble Tart

This easy single serving apple crumble tart is the perfect cool weather dessert. To save time, add a few ingredients to half of the shortbread like crust recipe to make the crumble topping. It's filled with tart apples for the perfect sweet, tart, crumbly bite.

How will this apple tart make your life easier?

Instead of dirtying a few bowls and making a different crust and crumble and of course apple filling, I've tested this apple crumble tart recipe to be delicious and add a few ingredients to the crust recipe. Now you're saving prep time and clean-up.

Recipes like this, that use the shortbread like crust to make the crumble make it easier and more enjoyable to cook for one. It's the small tweaks like this that make a big difference. So even though there's lots of steps in this recipe, it's pretty quick.

This Single Serving Apple Crisp recipe, Chocolate Chip Cookie, and Skillet Peach Crumble are other great and easy one serving recipes.

What makes this apple tart with crumble topping so good?

This tart has a shortbread like crust, tart apple filling, and brown sugary crumble with oats on top. It's a delicious take on a traditional apple dessert. The buttery, sweet crust, tart apples, and crumbly topping make for a delicious 1 serving dessert.

How to make apple crumble tart

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray baking dish.

Make crust: add all crust ingredients to a medium sized bowl. Using a fork, your hand, or pastry cutter, cut butter into other ingredients until you get a pebbly sandy texture.

Sprinkle ½ of crust mixture into baking dish. Press down with the flat bottom of a cup or measuring cup. Set aside the remaining crust mixture. You will be using this as a base for your crumble topping.

Bake crust for 8-10 minutes. It's ok if your apple crumble tart crust doesn't brown, but it should be slightly harder than before baking.

While crust is baking, add topping ingredients to remaining crust mixture. Mix together with a fork or your hand. Refrigerate until assembly.

Now that the topping for your apple crumble tart is in the fridge, it's time to make the apple filling. Thinly slice apples and add them to a medium mixing bowl. Sprinkle remaining ingredients over apples. Mix until all apples are coated.

Remove crust when it's done. Place apple slices over crust so they're even. Sprinkle any remaining spices from the apples over the apple slices.

Sprinkle crumble topping over apples, spread it out over your apples. Bake 25-30 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and apple filling is bubbling. Let cool 10 minutes. But I like this apple crumble tart best at room temperature or even cold.

You can top your apple tart with ice cream and/or caramel sauce.

I adapted this apple crumble tart recipe from this Caramel Apple Pie Bars recipe that I created for Washington Apples. This recipe is sooo good, and great if you want a recipe similar to this, but with more servings.

Substitutions/Tips

• Use cold butter for the crust and topping. It'll help the crust be tender and the topping be nice and crumbly.
• Mixing the crust with a fork or pastry cutter will keep your hands clean and help you waste a bit less of the crust from having to wash it off your hands. But using your hands (or food processor) is faster.
• You can also mix up the crust for your apple crumble tart in a mini food processor.
• Use light brown sugar or dark brown sugar in the topping. Either works. (I like dark brown because it has a bit more molasses for flavor)
• I recommend using tart crisp apples like granny smith apples, pink lady, etc. But you can use any kind of apple.
• I tested this apple crumble tart in a 7 ounce ramekin, which is great. I made it in the shallower dish so you could see it better in the video and photos. If using a wider dish, you may need to double the crust/topping recipe so they're not too thin.
• If you don't finish your tart, you can chop it up and add to yogurt or ice cream. Refrigerate in an air tight container for 5-7 days.
• Other great add-ins: chopped nuts, rhubarb, berries, caramel sauce.

FAQ

What can I make with leftover ingredients?

• Brown Sugar: Small Batch Dark Chocolate Cookies, Small Peach Cobbler with Cake Mix, and Oatmeal Cherry Bars.
• Oats: Baked Oats for One and Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins
• Apple: Apple Pie Overnight Oats, Chicken Apple and Pecan Salad, and Cinnamon Overnight Oats with Apples
• Lemon Juice: Strawberry Banana Milkshake, Shaved Zucchini and Feta Salad, and Sparkling Berry Lemonade

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