Alsatian Apple Pie

Last Updated on August 6, 2024

Sweet cake made from pastry lined with apples, topped with a custard filling, baked in the oven until golden brown, served dusted with icing sugar.

Ingredients:

300 g of plain flour 200 g butter 100 g flour sugar 2 bags vanilla sugar 1 tbsp milk 1 tsp baking powder

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1 piece egg yolk peel of one lemon pinch of salt For the filling: 6 pcs small apples 2 pcs whole eggs 2 pcs egg yolks 80 g of powdered sugar 250 ml whipping cream 2 tbsp peel of one lemon

Procedure:

1. Make a soft dough with the ingredients for the dough and refrigerate for about 30 min
2. In the meantime, clean the apples, cut in half and carefully cut out the cores, cut the top of the apples into strips but do not cut all the way to the bottom
3. Preheat the oven to 160 °C, grease a mould, preferably a round ceramic one, approx. 28-30 cm in diameter, with butter
4. Roll out the cooled dough into an approximate circle, transfer it to the mould and spread it (knead it) to the top edge
5. Place the sliced apples cut side down on the pastry and “coat” them with the filling you have prepared by whisking (by hand is fine) all the ingredients for the filling, except the apples
6. Place in a preheated oven and bake for about 60 minutes
7. Let the baked cake cool well, sprinkle with icing sugar and serve.

Note:

You can find more great recipes from Mrs. Iva Vargova, the author of this text and the photograph, on her page here: Baked, cooked with Iva.