
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