Lazy Apple Strudel
Description
Homemade pastry for tea. The recipe for making apple strudel is extraordinarily simple, follow the step‑by‑step instructions and cook with pleasure. Serve cooled or slightly warm.
Instructions
- 1
Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
- 2
Step 2
Place the vanilla croutons in the blender.
- 3
Step 3
Grind them into fine crumbs.
- 4
Step 4
Add granulated sugar and cinnamon to the croutons.
- 5
Step 5
Stir.
- 6
Step 6
Rinse the raisins and soak them in two tablespoons of cognac, rum, or liqueur.
- 7
Step 7
Peel the apples and slice them into thin slices.
- 8
Step 8
Spritz the apples with lemon juice so they don't darken.
- 9
Step 9
Roll out the dough into a thin sheet.
- 10
Step 10
Spread the breadcrumbs onto the dough sheet, smoothing them over the entire surface, leaving a margin of 2–3 centimeters from the free edge.
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Step 11
Place the apples on top.
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Step 12
Place raisins on the apples.
- 13
Step 13
Carefully roll the dough into a log.
- 14
Step 14
Transfer the strudel onto a baking sheet, and brush the top with butter.
- 15
Step 15
Bake the strudel in a preheated oven at 180–200 °C for 20–25 minutes, then cool it on a rack to room temperature.
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Step 16
Dust the cooled strudel with powdered sugar.
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Step 17
The strudel turns out extraordinarily tasty and no worse than at a Viennese café.