Wheat free & Sugar free

Ingredients:

Pastry Ingredients:

350g     Rice flour 
130g     Spelt flour (sifted) 
10g       Salt 
110g     Fructose 
210g     Butter 
1           Egg 
5ml        Apple cider vinegar 
             Water 
15g        Xanthum gum 

Filling Ingredients:

             Thinly sliced peeled apples 
165g     Fructose 
30g       Butter 
6g         Ground Cinnamon 

Method:

Method for pastry:

• Preheat the oven to 180 degrees
• In large mixing bowl, combine the flour mix, salt and fructose. Mix well.
• Cut in the butter and mix with your hands until the flour looks like breadcrumbs.
• In a small bowl combine egg, vinegar and a little water. Whisks together then gradually add the flour mix, stirring with a fork.
• Mix until dough forms a ball. Add more water if necessary.
• Allow dough to rest for tem minutes in the fridge before rolling out.
• Roll the dough onto a large chopping board wrapped in cling wrap.
• Place into large steel baking tray.

 
Method for filling:

• Make sure your pastry is prepared in the baking tray
• While slicing the apple sprinkle a little lemon juice to stop them going brown
• Combine the cinnamon and the fructose. The amount of fructose depends on the sweetness of the apples.
• Mix the apples and the sugar together.
• Pour the mix into the baking tray and spread evenly
• Dot the top of the apple with the butter
• Top the apple with stripes of pastry in a criss-cross fashion
• Place on the lowest rack in the oven at 230 degrees for ten minutes then reduce the temperature to 175 degrees. Bake for 30 minutes; keep an eye on the bake while it is cooking.