Apples at their simplest can be their very finest. Sure, I love an oozy, heavily spiced and lidded apple pie, but I also think there is something matchless about apples, butter and sugar, baked until bubbly. This classic apple tart is from Alice Waters, but she says that it was actually Jacques Pepin who created it at Chez Panisse more than 20 years ago. I can see why they’ve never gotten tired of it.
Ingredients

* 1 sheet of puff pastry
* 2 apples
* 2 tablespoons of butter
* 1/2 cup of sugar

Prepare

Peel and slice the apples into 1/4 inch pieces.

Cut the pastry out using the rounded bottom part of the fluted pan. Butter the pan and lay the pastry down. Add sliced apples, brush them with butter,
Bake

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Put the pastry in the middle rack of the oven for about 30 minutes or until the stop of the apples is caramelized.
Caramelize

Sift some powedered sugar on top. Caramelize it with a blowtorch.