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Apple strudel made of short pastry with vanilla espuma

Fine apple strudel made of short pastry with Val Venosta apples

This apple strudel with a delicious filling of Val Venosta apples is prepared with a delicate short pastry instead of with the classic laminated dough. The recipe by Nathalie Trafoier, chef pâtissière at the Kuppelrain restaurant in Castelbello, combines both tradition and creativity. A special dessert that convinces with its buttery crust and fruity core.
190 min.
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Ingredients

For 1 baking tray (28 x 30 cm)

Short pastry
70 g sugar
200 g butter at room temperature
½ lemon (zest)
Some vanilla pulp
1 pinch of salt
2 yolks (40 g)
300 g flour (wheat or spelt)

Crumbs

25 g butter
100 g ground sponge cake leftovers or breadcrumbs

Filling
Approx. 500 g acidulous apples from Val Venosta
50 g walnuts or pine nuts
30 g raisins
20 g rum
Some cinnamon
Some vanilla pulp
1 untreated organic lemon (zest and juice)
25 g sugar

Completion
1 egg
1 tbsp. water
1 pinch of salt
Powdered sugar

Vanilla espuma
200 g vanilla skyr
200 g cream
1/2 vanilla bean, pulp
Some grated tonka bean
1 pinch of cinnamon
1 pinch of salt
25 g powdered sugar
 
 
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Preparation


Short pastry
Mix sugar, butter, lemon zest, vanilla pulp and salt in the food processor with the dough hook. Add the yolks and stir in. Add the flour and quickly knead everything into a smooth dough.
Shape the dough into a rectangle, flatten it a little and wrap it in cling film. Let rest in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.
Roll out the short pastry on baking paper to a large rectangle (30 x25 cm).

Crumbs
Melt the butter in a pan, brown the sponge cake crumbs and let cool (If you use breadcrumbs instead of sponge cake crumbs, you have to add sugar, cinnamon and lemon).

Filling
Wash, peel and halve the apples, remove the core and cut into very thin wedges. Place the apple slices in a bowl. Coarsely chop the walnuts or pine nuts and add them to the apples together with raisins, rum, cinnamon, vanilla, lemon zest and juice. (If you want, you can soak the raisins in the rum overnight.) Add sugar and crumbs to taste. (If you use breadcrumbs, you need a little more sugar than for sponge cake crumbs.) Mix well.
Distribute part of the crumbs as a strip on the middle of the dough and place the filling on top. Fold the dough over the filling on both the left and the right and press together a little with your fingers. Place on a baking sheet.



Completion
Bake in the oven at 150°C (convection oven) for about 30 minutes. Remove from the oven, let cool and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Vanilla espuma
Put all the ingredients in a bowl and whisk. Strain the mixture through a sieve and pour into a cream syphon (500 ml). Screw on a cream charger and shake well.
 

Recipe from Nathalie Trafoier

Kuppelrain
Patisserie is female and nobody embodies it better than Nathalie Trafoier. Being the daughter of Michelin star chef Jörg Trafoier and Sonya Egger, Nathalie is responsible for desserts and patisserie at their finest at the Kuppelrain restaurant in Castelbello, Val Venosta. Diligence, passion, love of experimentation and commitment take shape every day and become delicious goodies that are a feast for both the palate and the eyes: pralines and sweets of chocolate, biscuits and typical krapfen filled with fruit and other products from Val Venosta, mini-tarts, spoon desserts, cookies and much more.
 
 

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