For the
pastry:
- 250g of cold butter
- 400g flour
- 1 egg
- 1 yolk
- 150 g sugar
- 1 small teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 package of vanilla sugar
For the
filling:
- ½ kg of apples (your favourite ones)
- 3 spoons of sugar (or more if you like it to be really sweet)
- 1/3 cup of water
- cinnamon - optional
Preparation:
You can make your
pastry by hand, or simply pulse all the ingredients in a food processor. If
making by hand, sieve the flour with the baking powder, sugars into a large
mixing bowl. Add chopped butter and mix with your hands until the mixture
resembles breadcrumbs. Add the egg and the yolk and gently work it together
until you have a ball of pastry dough. Sprinkle a little flour over the pastry,
then wrap it in cling film and pop it into the fridge to rest for 0.5h - 1
hour.
In the
meantime the pastry is resting prepare the apple mouse. Peal the apples, take
out the seeds, chop in small pieces and put into a pot. Add water and sugar and
cook on a low heat for about 45min, whisking from time to time, until the apples have softened. Put aside
to cool down.
Preheat your oven
to 180ºC. Take your cooled pastry out of the fridge. Prepare a pie dish
around 28cm in diameter. Flour a clean surface and a rolling pin. Cut off the
half of your pastry and put that aside. Roll the rest into a circle just over 1.5cm
thick. Put your pastry circle into the
dish and push it into the sides. Take a fork and make some small holes in the
pastry, then put the dish into the oven and prebake for about 15min. Take it
out and cool down.
Take your apple
mouse and pull into the prebaked pastry. Take the remaining half of the pastry and
roll again over 1cm thick. With a knife cut the pastry into stripes, put them
on the top of your apple mouse forming a chequered pattern.
Again put it into
the oven and bake for another 30min until the top of the apple pie gets a nice
golden color.
Bon appétit!!!
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