FEATURE RECIPE
Apple and prune brioche tart

Apple and prune brioche tart

This brioche tart is delicious served straight from the oven with cream or ice-cream for dessert, but it also makes an indulgent breakfast. Simply serve it with a cup of good coffee.

Serves 8

Cooking Time Prep time 30 mins, cook 40 mins (plus proving)



7 gm   dried yeast (about 1 sachet)
2 tbsp   warm milk
275 gm   plain flour, plus extra for dusting
40 gm   caster sugar
3   eggs
175 gm   softened butter, coarsely chopped
For brushing:   eggwash
4   golden delicious apples, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
80 gm   pitted prunes
110 gm (½ cup)   raw sugar
For dusting:   pure icing sugar


1 Combine yeast and milk in a small bowl, stir to dissolve yeast and set aside until foamy (5-7 minutes). Combine yeast mixture, flour, sugar, eggs and 1 tsp fine sea salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a dough hook and mix until dough is smooth and elastic (8-10 minutes). Add butter a little at a time, allowing each addition to be incorporated before adding the next, and beat until dough is smooth and glossy (2-3 minutes), then cover dough with a tea towel and set aside in a warm place until doubled in size (1½-2 hours).
2 Knock back dough, place on a lightly buttered and floured baking tray and shape into a 25cm-diameter circle. Cover loosely with a tea towel and set aside in a warm place until doubled in size (50 minutes-1 hour).
3 Meanwhile, preheat oven to 220C. Brush top of brioche with eggwash, scatter with apples and prunes, then sprinkle with sugar. Bake until golden (35-40 minutes). Dust with icing sugar and serve warm.

This recipe is from the July 2010 issue of Australian Gourmet Traveller.

Drink Suggestion Top-quality Sauternes.

RECIPE Rodney Dunn PHOTOGRAPHY William Meppem STYLING Megan Morton and Rodney Dunn DRINK SUGGESTION Max Allen

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