Apple Tosca Pie

Tosca refers to a delicious, briefly boiled almond caramel topping that can be used to crown cakes, fruit cobblers and the like. Here it is combined with a yummy apple pie.

Steps

Preheat oven to 175c.

Line a 24 cm round cake pan with foil , grease.

To make crust: cream butter and sugar.

Add egg , mix to combine.

Add flour , ground almonds and baking powder , quickly mix into batter.

Spread batter on bottom of the prepared pan.

Peel , core and slice apples.

Cover the surface of the batter with apple slices.

Bake in the preheated oven for 15-20 minutes.

While the pie is baking , prepare the topping: combine all topping ingredients in a saucepan.

Heat the mixture gently to boiling point , stirring occasionally.

Remove from heat as soon as the first few bubbles appear.

Do not boil !.

Take the half-baked pie out of the oven and quickly spread the hot topping on top of it.

Place the pie back in the oven and continue baking for about 20 minutes , or until the topping is golden brown.

Let cool completely before removing from pan.

You can also use a 24 cm pie dish and serve the pie in its dish.

Ingredients

butter, brown sugar, egg, all-purpose flour, ground almonds, baking powder, apples, slivered almonds, sugar, half-and-half