Try this quick and easy, delicious Tarte Tatin

I know about the history of Tarte Tatin. It is a French apple pie where the apples are cooked beneath a lid of puff pastry. When cooked, the dish is flipped over so the apples are on top (writes Karen Wright).

It is named after two sisters with the surname Tatin. They lived in a small town in central France called Lamotte Beauvron. I have been to the town many times and the boulangeries all sell slices of their famous tarte.

Folklore has it that one day the sisters were baking a regular apple pie but made a mistake and the pastry flopped on top of the fruit. They baked it anyway and Tarte Tatin was born!

This is how I made it.

Ingredients: Six eating apples, peeled, cored and sliced, 50g butter, 50g brown sugar, one roll of puff pastry.

Method: Melt butter and sugar in a frying pan, bubble together until mixture starts to thicken and becomes caramel. Add the apples and cook in caramel for a few minutes. Place the apple mixture in a greased 20cm cake tin. Lay puff pastry over the apples and tuck edges down. Bake in a pre-heated oven at 220 degrees or 200 fan.

When the pastry is puffed up and golden remove from the oven, and carefully flip the tarte on to a serving dish. Delicious with custard, cream or ice cream, Et Voila!

Staying on the French patisserie theme I also held an online Zoom workshop with Bake with a Legend.

The class - five delegates from the UK and 10 from America - made eclairs. It was terrific! Everyone managed to make the eclairs and fill them with cream and top them with ganache.

Lastly, and yes, it is Zoom again! I hosted a virtual tea party at the hospice for the volunteers. I was joined at socially distanced reality by the Mayor of Wakefield and our local MP. We did have a good time, the MP and the Mayor are both charismatic personalities and it was smashing to meet them both.

Next week I promise, no more zooming, I have my thinking cap on and want to come up with a tasty recipe for a midweek meal.....am thinking we might have a trip to Malaysia?