Mini Apple & Browned Butter Tarts

Mini Apple & Browned Butter Tarts are a perfectly light treat with great fall flavors! This dessert includes a flaky pie crust topped with apples and pecans and finished off with decadent browned butter for a bite-sized sweet, perfect for holiday parties.

This dessert combines so many of my favorite things! From the flaky pie crust as a base to the tart apples smothered in rich browned butter, it doesn’t get much better than this! I started making these Mini Apple & Browned Butter Tarts years ago as a more presentable way to serve apple pie. I like to serve appetizers and bite-sized desserts at holiday parties and these were the perfect way to incorporate the great flavors of pie into a small bite. The browned butter is something I added more recently, which gives it an extra layer of flavor that is absolute perfection!

I love how the thin slices of apple form a rosette of sorts and make for a beautiful presentation. You can peel your apples…or be lazy like myself and slice them with the peel still on. Either way they will taste great, but the peel actually gives more of a visual effect that I like. If you want to make these even easier, you could skip browning your butter, but that really adds some amazing flavor to the dessert. If you have had browned butter, you know that it adds amazing flavor to EVERYTHING!

When I first started making browned butter, I would make the rookie mistake of getting rid of the brown bits at the bottom of the butter. Later on, I learned that is where most of the toasty rich flavor comes from. So don’t make the same mistake I did, and be sure to use all of the browned butter to spread over these little sweet treats!

More apple recipes perfect for fall!

Salted Caramel Apples

Candy Bar Apple Dip

Apple Bundt Cake

Serving: 1 grams