Ingredients for the South Tyrolean apple strudel
- 125 g butter
- 125 g icing sugar or sugar
- 1 pinch of grated lemon zest
- ½ packet vanilla sugar
- 1 tbsp milk
- 1 egg
- 250 g flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
Ingredients for the filling
- 600 g apples
- 50 g sugar
- 50 g breadcrumbs, roasted in a little butter
- 20 g pine nuts
- 2 tbsp rum
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- 1 pinch of grated lemon zest
Preparation of the South Tyrolean apple strudel
Mix the slightly softened butter with the sugar, lemon zest and vanilla sugar in a bowl to form a homogeneous mixture. Add the egg and milk, mix in the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt and knead into a dough. Leave the dough to rest for ½ hour.
Peel and core the apples and cut into thin slices. Mix with the sugar, breadcrumbs, pine nuts, rum, vanilla sugar, cinnamon and lemon zest.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C. Roll out the pastry and place on a buttered baking tray. Pour the apple filling onto the dough and fold the dough into a strudel. Brush the strudel with a little egg and bake for 30-40 minutes.
