Back in October, I tried doing Goat Cheese and Apple Tarts from The Hunger Games
The instructions for making this are all at the bottom of this post and I recommend making the pie crust first, then while that chills in the fridge, make the two fillings. Make sure you have a pastry blender
I had to experiment four separate times until I got the baking down right, which is a whole lot of time and work! Anyway, first, you roll out a small ball of dough (I ended up making 9 tartlets, but if you roll thinner, you should be able to squeeze in 10) and then put it into your pan. I got mine at Williams-Sonoma. Pinch off any excess and then fold the outsides over into the pan, pressing the sides so that they take the groove shape of the pan.
Next, brush the crusts with an egg wash made from 1 beaten egg and 1 tsp of heavy cream. This will help give the crust a nice golden brown color. My first three baking attempts kept giving me pale crusts, even with more baking time and a higher temp, so I finally went with the wash and that did the trick.
Fill the bottoms with the goat cheese filling, about two spoonfuls. Enough to fill it up about 1/3 way. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.
After the tarts come out after the first bake, scoop some apple pie filling into the middle, making sure to leave some of the goat cheese visible. It should be firm enough where it doesn’t sink in. Return to the oven and bake for another 20 minutes.
Here’s what they look like when they first come out of the oven. The goat cheese custard on the bottom should be slightly puffy, with the apple pie filling have a nice gloss to it. The crust should be a nice golden brown. Let it cool in the pan for a bit before gently removing to cool on a rack. The shortening in the crust shouldn’t give you any sticking problems. Mine slid right out with no problems and I didn’t grease the pan.
After they’ve cooled for a bit, give it a try. They taste heavenly when they’re still warm! Sadly, if you want to know what it tasted like for Peeta, you’d need to leave yours out for a day or two and then eat it when it’s gone stale.
“We make a goat cheese and apple tart at the bakery,” he says.
“Bet that’s expensive,” I say.
“Too expensive for my family to eat. Unless it’s gone very stale. Of course, practically everything we eat is stale,” says Peeta, pulling the sleeping bag up around him. In less than a minute, he’s snoring.
Huh. I always assumed the shopkeepers live a soft life. And it’s true, Peeta has always had enough to eat. But there’s something kind of depressing about living your life on stale bread, the hard, dry loaves that no one else wanted.
The Hunger Games, page 309
I’m no pastry chef, but these really do taste amazing, and I usually can’t stand apple pie. My daughter totally loved it too, though she said it tasted awful when it was cold. I went with diced apples because figuring out how to arrange them when they’re sliced is just a nightmare when you’re making tartlets.
After my experiments last night, I was lying down in bed and started panicking, thinking that maybe tarts were only supposed to have fruit without any kind of sauce, but a quick look at Wikipedia says that all it means is that it’s a pie without a roof. Whew!
One more picture to show you the importance of not going overboard with egg washing. I left a little bit in the shell and you can see the yellow in this one. You definitely need to be careful when brushing it on!
This recipe is a bit of work, but the effort is definitely worth it in the end.
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These look delicious! I’m going to have to make them one of these days, because my mouth is watering just looking at your photos. I love anything with apple in it. Thanks for the recipe, and I’m glad you were able to come up with a recipe that tastes great! 🙂
Thanks Penelope, let me know what you think when you’ve tried it!
WOW. There is nothing in the Hunger Games that you can’t make. (well except for forcefield-fried rat/possems)
Ewww! lol! You forget, there’s no way I’m making wild dog stew!
i need to do these someday with my friend who is a wiz at baking…the exact opposite of me
these look so god i can’t wait to beg my mom to let me make them. and for $ to get the stuff 2 make it:)
i’m the typical poor college student going to a book club get together on Thursday and I really want to make these! Would any other less expensive cheese work?
I know that I am a little late for your book club get-together. But I just wanted to share that I made this last night (it is delicious, by the way), and I believe that you could also make them with cream cheese, which is much cheaper. Cream cheese is a little sweeter, though, so you might want to reduce the amount of sugar in the filling. Good luck!
Oh and what kind of apples do you suggest?
I think the best would be honey-crust or something like that
Do you know if this can be made as a single, large tart instead of individual tartlets? If so, how does the recipe need to change?
These look amazingggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ahhh can’t wait totally trying these!
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Hi! I’m making these tarts for a Hunger Games party and I hope they turn out as beautiful and tasty as yours. I’m going through the recipe right now and I noticed you have lemon juice in the list of ingredients for the apple filling, but you don’t say anything about it in the instructions. Do I mix it with the dry ingredients or am I adding it later with the apples?
Oh geez, sorry about that! Mix it into the apple pie filling!
We made these today for a Hunger Games bookclub meeting, and they were amazing. We may have to start making them for regular occasions too. Thank you so much for the recipe!
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Looks great. I want to make these, been thinking about them ever since the book.
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I made these on Thursday with my sister, and they turned out amazing! Absolutely scrumptious. Well done, lady.
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You should make Peeta’s cheese buns.After all they are Katniss’s favorite 🙂
I totally agree with Annie! Greasy Sae! Lol!
Cresta? Right Annie?
Hi, love the idea of this! I just want to know long this took to make as i want to make this for my cooking class; i have a one hour time limit…so please let me know. THANKS:)
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I made a large tart from this recipe for lunch today, having read that passage of the book last night and thought “that sounds good”.
I did make one small change: mayonnaise instead of sour cream and used pre-prepared flan dough, but it came out pretty well and was actually better cold in the evening.
With a fan over I found that 180C was a bit high and the cheese base was browning fast, so I dropped the temperature down to 170C (a fraction cooler than your 350F) and found that that was better.
I have to say that my wife loved it.
how many tarts did these make? and what size shell did you use? 🙂
please and thank you!
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i recently made these for a hunger games theme party and everyone loved
them. when i was done and putting everything away i realized i didn’t
use the lemon juice at all. where was i supposed to use it?
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I have to say I was very surprised by this recipe. It was quite tasty but not at all how I pictured it in the books. I always pictured it the way the French do Goat cheese and apple tarts – they have just a hint of sweetness from the crust and apples. They bake the tart shell with maybe three slices of apple pressed into the shell. When it’s done they top with some crumbled goat cheese and broil till it’s brown and bubbly. They’re absolutely delicious!