The traditional Apple Strudel Pie I read from NET was made from scratch(the pastry, I mean). This was made to mimick the ones we have in Singapore that is sold by a very famous Apple strudel pie bakery house.
This is a long winded post, recipe. Bear with me!
This is the filo pastry I used. You can use any brand you can find in your home country.
Ingredients for Custard Cream
2 tbsp instant Custard powder
300ml Thickened Cream
100ml full cream milk
4 tbsp fine sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract.
Method
1. Heat up cream and milk in a sauce pot.
2. Add sugar and vanilla extract to stir till melted.
3. Add custard powder, using a whisk to stir quickly till it appears creamy, sticky.
4. Turn off heat, remove and chill till ready to use.
Ingredients for Apples
1 large Fuji Apple, cored, peeled, sliced
2 tbsp light brown sugar
pinch of cinnamon powder
1 tsp cornstarch
Method
1. In a sauce pot, add apples, sugar and cinnamon powder to cook over low heat.
2. When 'juice' starts to appear, add cornstarch to cook till it thickens.
3. Remove and cool before using.
Ingredients for Pastry
10 pcs of Filo Pastry
100g Butter(unsalted..**)
snow powder(for dusting)
Other tools
A pizza knife
Aluminium foil, bigger than the filo pastry
Method : See Pie Charts
1. Thaw the filo pastry overnight from the freezer. Leave it in the chiller/fridge section a day before.
2. Carefully remove the pastry from the box/packaging.
3. Cut a big pc of aluminium foil(bigger than the filo pastry) and put on the table.
4. Melt butter in pot or microwave till liquid.
5. Brush liquid butter generously on the filo pastry.
6. Pick up another piece and place on top and brush with butter.
7. Repeat till all the pastry is used up. The last or top layer should have butter too.
8. Using a pizza cutter, cut into 4 equal parts.
9. Carefully remove each strip/part and place on baking parchment paper for baking. I run out of baking paper, so I use alum foil.
10. Bake in preheated oven 180C for only 10 mins.
11. Pick up one part of pastry and place on top of the foil sheet.
12. Spread a layer of cooled custard cream on top.
13. Put another pastry on top.
14. Add cooked apples and spread evenly..make sure it doesn't go to the edges of the pastry.
15. Put another layer of pastry on top.
16. Repeat with custard cream, and lastly the last piece of pastry
17. Dust snow powder on top.
18. Chill before serving.
Very Important notes
Butter must be unsalted. If you use salted, your pastry will be extremely salty..!
Snow powder is not the same with Icing sugar.
This is a long winded post, recipe. Bear with me!
This is the filo pastry I used. You can use any brand you can find in your home country.
Ingredients for Custard Cream
2 tbsp instant Custard powder
300ml Thickened Cream
100ml full cream milk
4 tbsp fine sugar
1 tbsp vanilla extract.
Method
1. Heat up cream and milk in a sauce pot.
2. Add sugar and vanilla extract to stir till melted.
3. Add custard powder, using a whisk to stir quickly till it appears creamy, sticky.
4. Turn off heat, remove and chill till ready to use.
Ingredients for Apples
1 large Fuji Apple, cored, peeled, sliced
2 tbsp light brown sugar
pinch of cinnamon powder
1 tsp cornstarch
Method
1. In a sauce pot, add apples, sugar and cinnamon powder to cook over low heat.
2. When 'juice' starts to appear, add cornstarch to cook till it thickens.
3. Remove and cool before using.
Ingredients for Pastry
10 pcs of Filo Pastry
100g Butter(unsalted..**)
snow powder(for dusting)
Other tools
A pizza knife
Aluminium foil, bigger than the filo pastry
Method : See Pie Charts
1. Thaw the filo pastry overnight from the freezer. Leave it in the chiller/fridge section a day before.
2. Carefully remove the pastry from the box/packaging.
3. Cut a big pc of aluminium foil(bigger than the filo pastry) and put on the table.
4. Melt butter in pot or microwave till liquid.
5. Brush liquid butter generously on the filo pastry.
6. Pick up another piece and place on top and brush with butter.
7. Repeat till all the pastry is used up. The last or top layer should have butter too.
8. Using a pizza cutter, cut into 4 equal parts.
9. Carefully remove each strip/part and place on baking parchment paper for baking. I run out of baking paper, so I use alum foil.
10. Bake in preheated oven 180C for only 10 mins.
11. Pick up one part of pastry and place on top of the foil sheet.
12. Spread a layer of cooled custard cream on top.
13. Put another pastry on top.
14. Add cooked apples and spread evenly..make sure it doesn't go to the edges of the pastry.
15. Put another layer of pastry on top.
16. Repeat with custard cream, and lastly the last piece of pastry
17. Dust snow powder on top.
18. Chill before serving.
Very Important notes
Butter must be unsalted. If you use salted, your pastry will be extremely salty..!
Snow powder is not the same with Icing sugar.
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