Upgrade your Apple Pie for Thanksgiving!! This is an Apple Tarte Tatin, and it’s dangerously good. Apples bake in homemade caramel that soaks into all the flesh, turning them impossibly tender, buttery and sticky, with golden, flaky puff pastry underneath. Just five ingredients you might already have: apples, sugar, butter, vanilla and puff pastry. Almost too easy for something this decadent. APPLE TARTE TATIN 10-inch ovenproof skillet INGREDIENTS • 3 lb Pink Lady apples after peeling/coring, about 7–9 large • 1 cup sugar, divided • 7 tbsp unsalted butter, cubed • 1–2 tsp vanilla paste • 1 sheet all-butter puff pastry, thawed • Optional: ¼ tsp fine sea salt DIRECTIONS 1. Heat oven to 400°F. Roll pastry into a 10-inch circle, prick with a fork and refrigerate. Save the scraps. Peel, core and quarter apples, keeping pieces large. 2. Add ½ cup sugar to the dry skillet over medium heat. Stir until it begins melting and caramelizing. Add remaining sugar and stir until dissolved and amber, about 3–5 minutes. 3. Whisk in butter, vanilla and optional salt. Cook, whisking, until bubbling and slightly thickened, about 3 minutes. 4. Add apples and gently turn in caramel for 5 minutes. Reduce heat to low and simmer another 5 minutes to let the caramel soak in. 5. Turn off heat. Pack apples tightly, rounded side down, working from the outside toward the center. Fit extra pieces into gaps or add a second layer, pressing gently. Spoon caramel over them. 6. Cover with pastry and tuck edges around the fruit. Stretch scraps around the perimeter and tuck down with a rubber spatula for extra side crust. Cut a few small vents. 7. Set skillet on a rimmed baking sheet. Bake 40 minutes, until pastry is deeply golden and crisp and caramel bubbles around the edges. 8. Cool 1 hour. Cover skillet with a large serving platter, then carefully and quickly invert using oven mitts. Replace any apples left in the pan. Serve warm with crème fraîche or vanilla ice cream. #applepie #tatin #easydessert #thanksgivingdessert #thanksgiving - @seattlehanddoc