Sex on a plate tart =)

Hey guys,

This is my first recipe posting ever, its awesome and the name was given by my head chef Craig Lucas, because it was just marvellous =) Enjoy!!

"Sex on a plate" warm apple tart.
Serves: 4

500 grams of sweer short pastry
5 tbsp(tablespoons) of pecans,chopped
3 each of : Granny Smith apples, peeled and cut into semi-thick wedges
Blached off in red wine sauce
Red wine & Caramel sauce

Directions:
1)Preheat oven to 180 c
2)Roll out the pastry to 30mm thick and line four tart moulds approx. 7cms x 1.5cms
3)Blind bake by half
4)Line the bottom of each mould with generous amounts of chopped pecans. Place approx. 8 wedges( according to the way you're cutting it) and then spread the red wine & caramel sauce evenly
5)Bake the tarts for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the moulds and serve immediately.
6) To serve, place an apple tart in the centre of each plate. Spoon some red wine and glaze the tart, while serving it with vanilla ice-cream on the side =)

Variations:

You could use a shallow cake tin mould, instead of making a few smaller ones.
You could use apple slices as a topping for the ice cream.

Red Wine & Caramel Sauce

Ingredients:

250mls of red wine
400 grams of sugar
1 tbsp of butter
1 tsp of vanilla essence

1) Place the wine in a small saucepan and simmer for 20 minutes, or until reduced to 1/8 of a cup
2) Place the sugar in a medium-sized heavy-based saucepan.gently melt the sugat over medium low heat until golden brown and caramelised.
3) Add the butter and vanilla essence cook for 2 minutes
4 Add red wine reduction to a caramel and whisk until smooth.
5) Important!! Add cream in order to make the sauce thinner, as the sauce tend to thicken up like rock when cool. So add in gradual amounts of cream. A good suggestion would be 100ml.

Enjoy!!!!!