Today I will show you how to make a quick and tasty dessert, and we will make an apple shortcrust pastry recipe, a delicious apple strudel. Because everyone likes apple cakes and I had some shortcrust pastry in the fridge, I thought this recipe would be ideal after a romantic dinner.
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Although this shortcrust pastry is most often used for tarts and pies, it can just as well be rolled and filled with various fillings such as apples, cheese, nuts, poppy seeds or cinnamon sugar. Today I will fill them with grated apples that I will flavour with vanilla and cinnamon resulting in a delicious apple strudel.
But first, let me show you the few necessary ingredients for my shortcrust pastry recipe.
We Need Only Some Ingredients
For two rolls, we need a larger package of shortcrust pastry, 550 g, or two smaller ones, which we leave for about 30 minutes at room temperature before using.
We need 1.5 kg of red apples for the filling, as fragrant as possible; these are ideal for this type of dessert and which we will grate. We will flavour the apples with the juice of a lemon, 50 g of sugar, a sachet of vanilla sugar and two teaspoons of ground cinnamon.
Preparing the Ingredients
As I said, we will take the shortcrust pastry out of the fridge and leave it at room temperature while we prepare the apples. For the beginning, we peel them and then put them on the large grater, or if you want, you can just cut them into small cubes.
Sprinkle them with lemon juice, which helps not change colour and add the sugar, vanilla sugar and two teaspoons of cinnamon.
The apples for the filling are ready, and we can start baking.
How to Make the Apple Shortcrust Pastry Recipe
Remove the shortcrust pastry from the package and spread it on a work table sprinkled with wheat flour. Using a rolling pin, spread the pastry along, thinning it a little, then cut it in half, obtaining two rectangles the length of the baking tin.
Filling the Pastry
Sprinkle the whole amount of breadcrumbs over the two pieces of pastry, as they have the property of absorbing apple juice so that the dough will bake more easily. Divide the grated apples in half and put them in half of the two pieces of dough. It is good to squeeze the juice before putting them on the dough.
Rolling the Pastry
Roll the two sheets of dough, close the ends so that the filling does not come out during baking and then place them in a baking tray lined with baking paper.
To get a beautiful golden colour, grease the two rolls with beaten egg and then sprinkle a little sugar on top, which will caramelize.
Baking the Pastry
Put the baking tray in the preheated oven at 180 degrees and let it bake for about 30-40 minutes, checking in the last minutes until we get the desired colour.
Remove the tray from the oven, set aside to cool, and then slice it. And that is my apple shortcrust pastry recipe, simple but delicious, which can serve because I can’t wait to taste it.
Serving the Dessert
I like to serve the apple shortcrust pastry very simply, after which I cut them into 2,5-3 cm (1-1.5 inch) slices and sprinkle them with powdered sugar. That’s it!
Of course, if you want, you can add a spoonful of vanilla ice cream, but I devoured it without it.
If you have tried and liked this apple shortcrust pastry recipe and like apple desserts, I recommend you try the easy cinnamon apple pancakes or the best easy apple cake recipe.
Also, in the dessert category, you will find on our blog a series of recipes for sweets, cakes and pies, such as:
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- Grated Apple Fritters Recipe
- Strawberry Mousse Recipe Without Gelatin
- Best Cottage Cheese Dumplings
- Floating Island Cake Recipe
- Traditional Baked Cheesecake Recipe
- The Best Russian Cheesecake Recipe
- Best Raspberry Cheesecake Recipe
- Cream Cheese Filling Crepes Recipe
- Cottage Cheese Donuts
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Apple Shortcrust Pastry Recipe
Equipment
- 1 baking tray
Ingredients
- 550 g shortcrust pastry
- 1.5 kg red apples
- 50 g sugar
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 sachet vanila sugar
- 1 pieces lemon juice
- 50 g bread crumbs
- 1 pieces egg
- 1 tbsp sugar
Instructions
- Take the shortcrust pastry out of the fridge and leave it at room temperature from 30 minutes.
- Peel the apples and grate them on the large grater, or if you want you can just cut them into small cubes. Sprinkle them with lemon juice and add the sugar, vanilla sugar and the two teaspoons of cinnamon.
- Remove the shortcrust pastry from the package and spread it on a work table sprinkled with wheat flour. Using a rolling pin, spread the pastry along, thinning it a little, then cut it in half, obtaining two rectangles the length of the baking tin.
- Sprinkle the whole amount of breadcrumbs over the two pieces of pastry. Squeeze the apple juice before putting them on the dough.
- Divide the grated apples in half and put them in half of the two pieces of dough. Roll the two sheets of pastry, close the ends so that the filling does not come out during baking and place them in a baking dish lined with baking paper.
- Grease the two rolls with beaten egg and then sprinkle a little sugar on top which will caramelize.
- Put the baking tray in the preheated oven at 180 degrees and let it bake for about 30-40 minutes, checking in the last minutes until we get the desired colour.
- After cooling cut them into 2,5-3 cm (1-1.5 inch) slices and sprinkle them with powdered sugar.