Cream Cheese Apple Tart

I'm way late with my apple recipe for Johnny Appleseed Day, but here is the recipe any ways.

The Recipe:

Cream Cheese Apple Tart

Serves: 1 9" round tart pan 

Ingredients for Crust:

1 1/4 cups flour

1/3 cup suagr

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, chilled

1 eggs

1 Tbsp milk

Ingredients for Filling:

1 8-oz. package cream cheese, softened

1/2 sugar

2 egg yolks

1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Ingredients for Topping:

2 large apples peeled, cored & thinly sliced

1/3 cup sugar

1/2 tsp cornstarch

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon 

To start preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Butter or grease a 10" or 9" tart pan (you can use a pie pan if you don't have a tart dish). In a bowl or a food processor combine all your dry ingredients for your crust. Pulse (w/food processor) or mix ingredients. Then add in your chilled butter until the mixture starts to form a ball. Then pat dough into the tart dish. See photo for examples.

 With mixer or a food processor, blend cream cheese and sugar. Once combined add in your egg yolks and vanilla and mix until smooth. I just mixed all ingredients together at once. Then spread your cream cheese mixture over your dough.

Start layering your apples very close together over the cream cheese. I cut my apples slices really thin and then layered them with a bit of space where I only used one apple. Don't do this... the tart doesn't come out as apple-y, moist or tasty. In a bowl combine all of your 'topping' ingredients. Then sprinkle over the apples.

Bake tart for 30 minutes and then reduce your oven temp to 300 degrees F and continue baking for 10 minutes until golden brown!

Note About Recipe: this recipe was orginally a breakfast tart, I felt with all the sugar it was more of a dessert. If you differ in your opinion and/or make it more fancy and dessert like I'd serve if with a small scope of vanilla bean ice cream or drizzle carmel sauce over it... or both ice cream and carmel!