Paul Ainsworth served up delicious Apple and Frangipane Slice with Cornish Clotted Cream on James Martin’s Saturday Morning.

The ingredients for the frangipane are: 150g whole eggs, 150g ground almonds, 150g caster sugar, 150g unsalted butter room temperature or for extra flavour cook the butter until golden brown (buerre noisette) and leave to cool making sure you have 150g in weight for the recipe, 1 pinch vanilla seeds, 7g Amaretto and Plain flour to hand.

For she slice: 5 Pink lady or Braeburn apples peeled and de cored through the middle, 350g puff pastry, Frangipane as above, 120g apricot jam, 1 pinch vanilla seeds, 2 egg yolks, Plain flour for rolling pastry, Icing sugar for dusting and Cornish Clotted cream for serving.

See recipes by James in his book titled: Complete Home Comforts: Over 150 delicious comfort-food classics available from Amazon now.