Apple strudel pie
1 hour 5 min
Comforting and cosy, a homemade apple strudel with the perfect balance of sweet and tart, is perfect for dessert any night of the week!
Ballinger W.I.
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Ingredients
Makes: 1 pie
- 450g apples, peeled and cored
- 75g sugar
- 1/2 lemon, zested
- splash of water
- 75g flour
- 75g cornflour
- 1 teaspoon mixed spice
- pinch of salt
- 75g butter
- 60g caster sugar
- 1 egg yolk
- 100g plain biscuit crumbs
- 1 tablespoon currants
- 1 tablespoon sultanas
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:45min ›
Ready in:1hr5min
- Preheat the oven to 180 C / Gas 4. Lightly grease a 20cm pie tin.
- Stew the apples with 75g sugar and lemon zest in a little water until it becomes a pulp, about 15 minutes; set aside.
- Sieve the flour, cornflour, mixed spice and salt into a bowl. Rub in butter until it resembles breadcrumbs; stir in 60g sugar. Bind with egg yolk and roll out into a thin dough. Line the prepared tart tin with half the pastry.
- Sprinkle half the biscuit crumbs on the bottom of the tart. Place a layer of apple, then currants, another of apple, then sultanas. Finish with apples and the remaining crumbs. Cover with pastry and cut a few steam vents into the centre of the tart.
- Bake in the preheated oven until bubbly and golden, about 30 minutes.
