Apple Strudel served with Vanilla Ice cream 蘋果酥卷

This week, my younger daughter is making apple crisp at school. I brought her a few apples to bring back to school for making the apple crisp project on Tuesday. I also volunteer to help out the class to make apple crisp as I am very interested in baking stuff. And I am sure Nicole will love to see her mom participate in her class activity! Therefore, I brought some extra apples for myself too! I am also ready to make some apple dessert! I am going to challenge myself a bit. Apple crisp is too easy to make, therefore I chose Apple Strudel (actually this is not hard ^_^). There are many simple recipe out there. I chose this complicated one because I think adding cinnamon sugar and breadcrumbs in each pastry layer sound more crunchy and stronger cinnamon taste overall.

Ingredients for Pastry:

4 filo pastry sheets

80g / 2.8 oz bread crumbs

70g / 2.5 oz sugar

1 tsp cinnamon

100g / 3.5 oz butter melted

Ingredients For fillings

110g / 3.9 oz sugar

0.5 tbsp cinnamon

35g / 1.2 oz butter

50g / 1.8oz raisins (I omit it this time)

2 tbsp sliced almonds

Juice and zest from half lemon

7g/0.2 oz corn flour

5 granny Smith apple peeled and sliced

Powered sugar for garnish

Directions: Filling

1. Heat pan with 35g of butter
2. When butter melts, pour in apple slices and stir until all apple coated with butter (Pic 2)
3. Add in 110g sugar and continue mixing until all sugar melted (Pic 3)
4. Continue cooking the apple for another 10-15 minutes until the apples are all soften
5. Add in cinnamon (Pic 4), raisins and almonds (Pic 5). Stir and mix well
6. In a small bowl, mix lemon juice and zest and stir in corn flour (Pic 6)
7. Then pour the flour mixture to the cooked apples and the apple sauce become thickened. (Pic 7)
8. Turn off heat and pour the apple fillings to a container and let it cool down.

Now prepare the pastry

Directions for making pastry and assembling

1. Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C)
2. Mix cinnamon, sugar and breadcrumbs in one bowl (Pic 8)
3. Take out one of the defrost filo pastry sheet (Pic 9)
4. Brush both side of sheet with butter (Pic 10)
5. Sprinkle with cinnamon mixture (Pic 11)
6. Take the second sheet and brush both side with butter. Place it on top of the first sheet.
7. Apply cinnamon mixture. (Pic 12)
8. Repeat the third layer as the same as 2nd layer
9. For the last layer, just need to apply one side of butter and place the butter side on top of the 3rd layer
10. Grab the whole thing and flip it over. So the buttered side of 1st layer is now facing up
11. Apply the apple filling horizontally on lower side of the pastry. (Pic 13)
12. Roll it all the way
13. Put in preheating oven and bake for 20 minutes (Pic 14)
14. Cut into pieces.
15. Sprinkle powder sugar before serving. 
16. Serve hot with vanilla ice cream

 Recipe source from youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GvJ4tA8uhc&list=WL8D054E0164461ED6