My Grandmothers Traditional Irish Apple Tart Recipe

The Best Traditional Irish Apple Tart Recipe

I love this traditional Irish apple tart recipe, it’s easy to make but above all its my Nanny Betty’s Traditional Irish Apple Tart Recipe. This is the epitome of traditional Irish Food for me.







My Apple Tart Story

Growing up as a child there was nothing better than walking into my Nanny Betty’s kitchen and seeing her standing in front of her mixing bowl with her sleeves rolled up peeling beautiful green juicy cooking apples. I was always amazed at how she would know by sight and feel if there was enough butter, enough flour or if the recipe needed that extra spoon of sugar. Nanny Betty’s traditional Irish apple tart recipe was always perfect and a welcome treat for a visiting grandchild on a weekend.

My Nan was pretty serious about apple tarts in general. The apples had to be soft with no solid bits, they had to be sweet but with just a little bit of a sour edge and the pastry had to by the right thickness. If the apple tart wasn’t up to her standards it was pushed to the side and she would be pretty vocal about her disapproval of the tart, to put it politely.







Years later while out with my Nan and my then girlfriend but now Wife Laura, we discovered that my Nanny Betty and Laura both had the exact same opinions when it came to apple tarts. I sat across from both of them in a cafe as they both discussed how a proper Traditional Irish Apple Tart should taste. I always laugh thinking back at that memory because of the look upon my Grandfathers face as my Nan and Laura talked. He looked at them then back at me, laughed and threw his eyes into the air as if to say, not another one.

This traditional Irish apple tart recipe is one that my Nan, Wife and my family have enjoyed for years. I really hope you try and enjoy my Nanny Betty’s Traditional Irish Apple Tart recipe and come to love it as I have. It’s recipes like this that help create some of the best memories in my childhood and I hope it will help you create some of your own. I hope you all try this wonderful Irish Apple Tart Recipe and enjoy one of my favourite traditional Irish foods.







This post is dedicated to the loving memory of my Nanny Betty and to my beautiful wife Laura. The two women in my life with such an excellent taste in apple tarts but even better taste in men.

If you love traditional Irish recipes then try my Traditional Irish Lamb Stew Recipe that is easy and packed full of flavour.

Some Equipment I use:

Measuring Cups & Spoons

Weighing Scales