MEL'S KITCHEN * APFELKUCHEN MIT STREUSELN

It's Fall so it's the Apple season!

To start off with I already had a bunch of apples in my fridge that hadn't had much success and then last weekend I inherited at least another 6!! So I figured, may aswell bake something with them!

So I pulled out my good old "Das Große Dr. Oetker Backbuch" which my Oma once gave me a long long time ago. I do all my German Christmas baking out of this book. One of my favorite German cake recipes is a Streuselkuchen, which is kind of like a crumble with the difference that under the fruit there is layer of cake.

This kind of cake is tradiotionally made with apples or my personal favorite, cherries -
which reminds me I still have some cherries from the garden in the freezer....

So with my two little helpers who peeled the apples and rolled out the dough,
the task was even easier....

If you're interested in the recipe here you go:

Knead together the following ingredients with an electric mixer
for about 5 minutes to form a ball of dough

400g of flour
1 pack of dry yeast
50g of sugar
1 pack of vanilla sugar
A pinch of salt
1 egg
50g melted butter
2 Tablespoons of oil
125ml lukewarm milk

Let the dough rest in a warm place till it doubles in size.
Mix through once again on high speed and roll/spread out on a greased baking sheet.

Peel, quarter and slice about 1,5kg of apples (or get some helpers to do it!!) and cover the rolled out dough. Don't worry if you think that's a lot of apples, they melt down quite a bit.

In a bowl mix together
375g of flour
200g of sugar
1 pack of vanilla sugar
1 teaspoon of cinammon
and add
250g of butter cut into small pieces

This will be a crumbly kind of dough that you cover the apples with.
I really like cinammon so I usually sprinkle some extra cinammon directly over the apples.

Then let it rest again in a warm space till it once again doubles in size....

Bake for about 30mins in a preheated oven at 210°C

Guten Appetit!