Apple Crunch Trifle Strudel Style Recipes

EASY APPLE STRUDEL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
• Place apples in a large bowl. Stir in brown sugar and golden raisins; set aside. Place puff pastry on baking sheet. Roll lightly with a rolling pin. Arrange apple filling down the middle of the pastry lengthwise. Fold the pastry lengthwise around the mixture. Seal edges of pastry by using a bit of water on your fingers, and rubbing the pastry edges together. Whisk egg and milk together, and brush onto top of pastry.
• Bake in preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes, or until golden brown.

APPLE CRUNCH TRIFLE - STRUDEL STYLE

Steps:

• Firstly make the cake mixture or you can buy a ready made sponge or Madeira.
• To make the cake preheat the oven to 180°C.
• Grease an line a 20cm round cake tin.
• Sift flours three times onto baking paper.
• Using electric mixer, beat eggs using a small mixing bowl until thick and pale.
• Gradually add the sugar, beating constantly until it has dissolved and it has become pale and glossy.
• Transfer to a large mixing bowl.
• Using a metal spoon, fold in the flours lightly.
• Spoon cake mixture into prepared tin.
• Bake for 15 minutes or until golden.
• Leave to cool slightly before turning out.
• Next to make custard use a little of the milk to mix with the custard powder in a glass.
• Heat the remaining milk and the sugar in a saucepan over medium heat.
• Before it starts to boil add the custard powder and stir continuously until it is thickened.
• The custard should be very thick so check the custard powder instructions to make a thick custard.
• Slice the cake across about 2cm thick for each slice.
• In a large decorative bowl place some cake slices on the bottom, add half of the filling ingredients- the pie apple, sultanas, cinnamon, sugar and almonds.
• Spoon custard over the top to cover.
• Add another layer of cake, filling and custard again then another layer of cake.
• Whip the cream and sugar and spread over the final layer of cake and sprinkle with the remaining 1/4 almonds.
• Place in the refrigerator until cooled then serve.

APPLE STRUDEL MUFFINS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a 12 cup muffin pan.
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a large bowl, beat together butter, sugar and eggs until smooth. Mix in vanilla. Stir in apples, and gradually blend in the flour mixture. Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin pan.
• In a small bowl, mix brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter until mixture is like coarse crumbs. Sprinkle over tops of mixture in muffin pan.
• Bake 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of a muffin comes out clean. Allow to sit 5 minutes before removing muffins from pan. Cool on a wire rack.

APPLE TRIFLE

Steps:

• combine apples, first sugar, vanilla and water, simmer covered over medium heat until apples are soft but not mushy, check after 10 minutes Let cool.
• Over medium heat, using saute pan, toast bread crumbs until golden brown, add second amount of granulated sugar, and cook 1-2 minutes until nicely browned.
• Turn off the heat add butter and stir until combined with breadcrumbs, remove from pan and cool.
• Layer apples and breadcrumb mixture in serving bowl, starting with apples and finishing with breadcrumbs.
• Decorate trifle with whipped cream and jelly.
• can replace bread crumbs with vanilla wafer, oatmeal cookies, etc -- .