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Apple Strudel

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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: Austrian, Italian, South Tyrol
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Dough
  • 100 g sugar
  • 125 g butter
  • 250 g flour
  • 1 egg
  • 1 packet vanilla sugar
  • grated lemon zest
  • 1/2 packet baking powder
Filling
  • 500 g apples cut into slices
  • 60 g sugar
  • 60 g breadcrumbs browned in butter
  • 25 g pine nuts
  • 50 g sultana raisins
  • grated lemon zest
  • vanilla sugar
  • cinnamon
  • a little rum
  • eggs for brushing

Method
 

Dough
  1. Work all the ingredients into a smooth dough, adding a little cream if too dry or some flour if too sticky.
  2. Leave to rest in the fridge for at least half an hour.
Filling
  1. Cut the apples into thin slices and mix with the sugar, breadcrumbs, sultana rasins, pine nuts, rum, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and lemon zest.
  2. Preheat oven to 350 F.
  3. Roll out the dough on a floured board and lay on a buttered baking tray.
  4. Put the apple filling on the dough and fold the dough over it.
  5. Brush the strudel with the egg. Decorate with the remaining strips of the dough and bake it in the oven.
  6. Dust with icing sugar and serve with whipped cream.
  7. Bake for 35 minutes. Let cool and enjoy!