german recipe | A little Swiss, a little Canadian

Pastry filled with vanilla pudding or custard then topped optional with fruit of choice I stayed with autumnal fruits like our local apples, really simple but oh so yummy treat that you could find in any German bakery. Again I had some trouble figuring out how to call this in English, did not have much luck so I am just calling it a danish.

There are so many delicious apple dessert that I would like to make, but it would just be to much to eat;) I am glad to be able to get back into baking and also eating normal again, after being sick for the last two weeks. Strong stomach pain kept my in bed or on the washroom for most of the time. I am feeling much better now, trying to get back into normal eating without getting stomach pain can be challenging. Also hope to get back to posting a recipe per week again.

Recipe is adapted from Chefkoch.de

Apple Pudding Danish

Pastry Dough:

300 g unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
80 g honey or sugar
1 pinch salt
1 pkg vanilla sugar or 1 tbsp vanilla extract
150 g quark or greek yogurt
6 tbsp milk
6 tbsp oil, canola or coconut oil

Filling:

1 pkg vanilla pudding powder, Dr. Oetker
500 ml milk
40 g honey or sugar, or more

Apple Topping:

2 1/2 medium apples, peeled and sliced
1/4 cup maple syrup or more
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp cinnamon

For Eggwash:

1 egg yolk
1 tbsp milk

-Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

-Prepare vanilla pudding according to package a few hours ahead, it needs to cool down and set.

-Mix apples with the maple syrup, lemon juice and cinnamon and let simmer on medium/low heat for about 10 minutes.

-In a medium bowl mix together quark, milk, oil, honey, vanilla extract and salt. Sift flour and baking powder into the wet ingredients and mix it well until holds together, it will be a soft dough.

-On a floured surface roll out the dough into a rectangle, then cut into 10-12 pieces. Transfer pieces onto baking sheet and fold edges in slightly. You can keep a rectangle shape or make it more round or traditionally into a pretzel shape.