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    Easy Apple Tarts with Blue Cheese and Honey

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    Easy Apple and Blue cheese Tarts make perfect appetizers

    Easy apple tarts get a sprinkling of blue cheese for an unexpected, yet perfectly paired addition to a seasonal snack.


    I learned quickly that apple picking is a thing when I moved to the East Coast almost 20 years ago. Growing up, apple picking meant going to Grandma's, picking tart green apples in her backyard, sprinkling them with salt and eating as many as possible. If we were lucky enough to be there at night, she'd sit with us and peel the skins off apples in her lap, and hand us sweet, juicy, skinless slices as a treat.

    sliced apples on pastry crust

    Here in New York, apple picking becomes a planned, organized event. Choose an orchard, get a car and some family or friends, and take a day-trip out of the city. You wander long orchard aisles of trees and end up eating the most delicious variety of apples until you're sick. Then pay way too much for a heavy little bag of giant red and green gems. I plan to do just this in a few weeks myself!

    Make easy apple tarts when you need a fresh, baked apple snack or fun party appetizer.

    The best part is coming home to make anything you can think of - apple cake, apple pecan streusel pie, apple crisp, caramel for dipping apples (try my Gingerbread Caramel with apples, it's to die for!), apple fritters, apple dumplings and these easy apple tarts.

    Easy Apple Tarts on parchment

    Sometimes you need just a little fresh-baked apple snack. Or you need a little appetizer, or cheese plate accoutrements. These little easy apple tarts are sprinkled with thyme, blue cheese and drizzled with honey. A delectable combination with seasonal baked apples. All of this goodness sits on top of flaky pie crust. Great for a little nibble.

    A new take on Apple Pie are these quick, savory and sweet bites!

    I suggest using my Perfect Pie Crust recipe (I usually make a few batches and keep some wrapped up in the freezer for apple tart moments like these!). If you'd like, you can use pre prepared crust, bought at the store, no problem. I just like the taste of mine better 🙂

    No matter what you end up making from your apple picking excursion (even it it's just to the grocery store produce section), tag your creations #TaraTeaspoon on Instagram and I'll post some of them this fall! Enjoy!

    Apple and blue cheese tarts on cream colored surface

    Easy Apple Tarts with Blue Cheese and Honey

    Tara Teaspoon
    Easy apple tarts get a sprinkling of blue cheese for an unexpected, yet perfectly paired addition to a seasonal snack.
    5 from 6 votes
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 15 minutes mins
    Total Time 30 minutes mins
    Course Brunch, Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 8 servings

    Ingredients
      

    • Homemade or Store-bought pie crust dough
    • Apples
    • Lemon Juice
    • Sugar
    • Blue Cheese crumbled
    • Honey
    • Fresh thyme

    Instructions
     

    • Roll out homemade or store-bought piecrust dough to ⅛ inch thick and cut into 2-by-4-inch rectangles. Use a fork to poke several holes in each piece. Cut apples into thin slices, toss them in a little lemon juice and spread fruit across each rectangle. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in a 425° oven for 15 min. Top each bar with 2 teaspoon crumbled blue cheese; drizzle with honey and sprinkle with fresh thyme.

    Notes

    I suggest using my Perfect Pie Crust recipe (I usually make a few batches and keep some wrapped up in the freezer for apple tart moments like these!). If you'd like, you can use pre prepared crust, bought at the store, no problem.
    Want to watch videos to show you how to cook?Check out our Youtube and try this recipe and more.

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    Recipe Tara Teaspoon. Photographer Alexandra Rowley. Prop Stylist Jen Everett. Originally published in LHJ 10/09.

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    Filed Under: Appetizers, Desserts, Pies + Tarts Tagged With: appetizer, apples, baking, blue cheese, easy, entertaining, honey, pie, pie crust

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    1. Mary Bench says

      July 16, 2018 at 3:41 pm

      These are tasty and beautiful too!

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    2. Brittany Smart says

      July 19, 2018 at 2:59 pm

      Gorgeous but also tasty!

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