Appeltaart

A proper Dutch apple tart. Delicious!

Ingredients
Dough

• 200 gr soft butter
• 160 gr light brown sugar
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 300 gr flour
• bit of salt
• 1 egg
• breadcrumbs

Apple filling

• 100 gr raisins
• rum
• 1 kilo of Elstar apples
• 100 gr walnuts sliced coursly
• 4 tsp sugar
• 1 bag vanilla sugar

Preparation

• Rub a 24 cm wide springform in with butter and cast flour over it
• Preheat your oven to 180°C.

Dough

• Whisk the butter, light brown sugar and cinnamon
• Sift the flour over it with a pinch of salt and add one egg
• Mix to a supple dough and leave to rest in the fridge for at least fifteen minutes
• Divide in three parts, one part for the bottom, one part for the side and one part for the top
• Roll out two parts and put this in the springform
• Divide the breadcrumbs over this

Apple filling

• Put the rum over the raisins and leave them be – i did this at the start of making the cake
• Peel the apples and cut into course pieces
• Put in the raisins, decide for yourself if you want to sift out the rum (i didn’t)
• Mix the apple, raisins, walnuts, sugar, vanilla sugar and cinnamon

Put together

• Put the apple filling in the springform
• Roll out the rest of the dough , slice this into small ribbons and cover the cake with them
• Break an egg, scarmble this and cover the ribbons with it
• Bake the cake in 60 minutes
• Let the cake cool a bit
• Serve with some powdered sugar and whipped cream if you like this