APPLE AND MINCEMEAT TART WITH CRUSHED WALNUTS AND MINT CREAM

Ingredients
- 1 x 7½cm/3in square ready-made puff pastry
- 150g/5½oz mincemeat
- 1 cooking apple (such as Bramley apple)
- cored
- peeled and sliced
- 2 tbsp soft brown sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- 2 tbsp icing sugar
- 100ml/3½fl oz double cream
- whipped to soft peaks
- 1 tbsp crushed walnuts
- 3 tbsp clear honey
- icing sugar
- for dusting
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Mark 6.
- For the tart
- lay the pastry on a baking sheet and spread the mincemeat onto the pastry
- leaving a 1cm/½in border. Place the apples and sugar on top of the mincemeat.
- Brush the pastry edges with milk and bake for eight minutes
- or until golden-brown.
- To make the mint cream
- stir together the mint and sugar with the whipped cream in a small bowl.
- Sprinkle the tart with walnuts
- drizzle with honey and dust with icing sugar. Serve the tart warm.

