Apple Tart

Crust:
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
3 Tbls. powdered sugar
1/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup yogurt

Filling:
1 cup (8 oz) cream cheese, room temperature
2 Tbls. honey
1 large egg

Topping:
2-4 apples, cored and cut into 1/4" slices
cardamom
allspice
honey

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F and place rack in center of oven. Grease 9 inch pie pan. For nicer presentation and serving, a springform pan is good, but a regular pie tin or cake pan is fine.

Crust: Stir together flour and sugar. Cut in butter and yogurt until the dough forms. Press the dough onto the bottom and one inch up the sides of the pan.

Filling: Beat the cream cheese until smooth. Add the honey and mix well. Blend in the egg. Pour the filling into the crust.

Toss the apple slices, a small amount of honey, and a sprinkle each of cardamom and allspice together, to coast the apple slices. Place apple slices in a decorative fashion on the top of the tart. You want it to be about double layered with apple slices.

Bake at 450 degrees F for 10 minutes. Reduce heat to 400 degrees F and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown (apples are soft when pierced with a fork), and filling is almost set. Remove from oven and let cool before serving.

Wheat Flour

A note on the different flours I have in the recipes.

The goal is to use all whole grain flours. But there are different options for texture, color, and flavor.

Whole wheat flour: This is the basic whole wheat flour that we are all familiar with. It can be used in the yeast bread recipes, and other baked goods except for those requiring a lighter texture, like cake. Milled from red wheat berries, it can be ground to different textures, but it is the densest and heartiest flour.

White wheat flour: This is a whole wheat flour that has been milled from white wheat berries, ground to a finer texture and lighter flavor and color. This can basically be used to replace whole wheat flour in any instance, according to your desires. It's a softer coffee than red wheat for pastries. Sometimes I will specify white wheat flour in the recipe, if the book description specifies that the bread is white, but you can use it basically whenever you want.

Whole wheat pastry flour: Similar to the white wheat flour, it has a lighter texture and flavor. This has less gluten than regular whole wheat flour, so should not be used for yeast bread. This is used mostly in cake and pastry recipes to obtain a texture and flavor similar to using all-purpose white flour.

Other flours: In non-bread, non-pastry recipes that call for flour for the sake of making gravy or thickening soup or anything like that, it doesn't really matter what kind of flour you use. For simplicity I put whole wheat flour in the recipe, but you can use the other kinds, or even non-wheat flours like corn meal.