Sweet Saturday

Apple's with Bailyes cream liqueur in a filo wrapping

I made this after reading another recipe with apples and Baileys. But I did want something wrapped in dough, which was not the case in the other recipe, as I wanted to hand these out as treats. I did not take measurements of the ingredients so these are guesses.

• 5 small apples
• 50 gr of dark brown sugar
• 50 gr of butter
• dash of baileys
• 50 ml cream
• ground cinnamon to taste
• ground ginger to taste
• ready bought filo dough

As I'm writing these down I can imagine raisins soaked in the Baileys first would go well with it too.

Take a baking tray for scones or muffins, fill each cup with 4 layers of filo dough, I just tore these into roughly the shape I wanted. I did not butter the tray.

Preheat the oven to 180°C.

Cut the apples and fry them in the butter in a pan, I added them apple by apple, so you have very soft pieces of apple and some with a bit of crunch in the end. Add the sugar, spices, cream and Bailyes too.

Once this is ready add a spoon full to each filo filled cup in the tray. And put in the oven for about 12 minutes.

Enjoy!!

PS Best served warm.

PS If you don't want to bother with the filo, I'm sure this apple-baileys mix will go real nice with some ice-cream.

Sweet Saturday

We have 2 apple trees in our garden, so here a quick and easy recipe for an apple pie. Most of the work is in arranging the slices of apples neatly on the pastry.

Here (in the back) as part of the dessert buffet for a family BBQ

Apple and cream on puff pastry

• ready made puff pastry
• 2-3 apples depending on size
• 200 ml cream
• 3 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 sachet vanilla sugar
• 1 tablespoon of flour
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon

Preheat the oven to 180°C (hot air with extra heath from underneath if possible)  

Roll the pasty on to a low baking tin and prick holes in the bottom with a fork all over. Peel the apples and slice them, lay them like rooftiles neatly on the puff pastry. 

Mix the cream, sugar, cinnamon and flour and pour this over the apples. Bake for about 25 min at 180°C

Enjoy!!

Apple and left-over-Biscuits Cake

Such a rainy day here, perfect for pottering about the house. I've done some work in my workshop until I ran out of black clay than did some fiddling around with the lay-out of this blog as you can see. Finally I made a cake, so we have something nice for dessert this evening. It is a variation on a recipe which I got from a friend, she adds carrots and gingerbread-biscuits. I had some crunchy biscuits which were not longer so crunchy, lots of eggs and a few apples to get rid off, so I made this variation. It worked out fine and is rather edible else I wouldn't share this with you :-)



Ingredients: 4 eggs, 250gr soft butter, 250gr flour, 250gr sugar, (so far the traditional "quarte-quarts"- 4 quarters, easy to remember recipe ;-) vanilla sugar, 2-3 apples and left over biscuits.
(or as original: add 250gr grated carrots and 250gr broken ginger biscuits)
Since I had only 150gr of butter in the house I adjusted it to suit.

Start with buttering and than coating your tin with flour and put it in the fridge, this helps to get it out easier after baking. Mix the sugar and the butter till creamy.

Add in egg by egg.

Followed by flour.

Peel and grate the apples.

Mix the apples and the crunched biscuits in.

Ready to go into the preheated oven (165°C for 60-80min) or whichever time/temp you are used to for baking cakes.

Take from the oven and leave to cool.
Eet smakleijk!
Bon apetit!
Enjoy!