Viennese Apple Cake


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Ingredients for 1 Tarte form, Ø 11 inches
  • For the pastry case
  • 1200 g Fresh savoury shortcrust pastry
  • For the filling
  • 200 g QimiQ Sauce Base
  • 160 g Sugar
  • 150 g Apple juice
  • 1000 g Apples, peeled , finely sliced
  • 130 g Graham crackers
  • 100 g Roasted hazelnuts, grated
  • 80 g Raisins, soaked
  • 4 g Cinnamon
  • 35 g Rum
  • 25 g Lemon juice
  • 1 Egg(s)
Method
1.
Preheat the oven to 350° F.
2.
Line the greased tarte tin with pastry and blind bake.
3.
For the filling, caramelise the sugar. Add the apple juice and QimiQ Sauce Base and reduce to a syrup consistency. Pour the mixture over the apples. Add the biscuit crumbs, nuts, raisins, cinnamon, rum and lemon juice and mix well.
4.
Pour the filling into the baked pastry case and cover with the remaining pastry. Brush with egg and prick holes in the lid to allow steam to escape.
5.
Bake in the hot oven for a further 40 minutes.