Breton Apple Pie

by Editorial Staff

A characteristic feature of Breton sweet pastries is shortcrust pastry made with salted butter. So we will prepare an apple pie based on such a dough. It is delicious!

Summary

Cook Time	1 hour 15 mins
Total Time	1 hour 15 mins
Course	Dessert
Servings (Default: 6)

Ingredients

Apples – 4-5 grams (sweet)
Wheat flour – 250 grams
Salted butter – 100 grams (chilled, if there is no salted butter, add a pinch of salt)
Butter – 50 grams (for lubrication before baking)
Brown Cane Sugar – 5 Teaspoons (4 teaspoon for dough, 1 teaspoon for brushing before baking)
Ice water – 50 Milliliters
Cinnamon – 1 Pinch

Instructions

Prepare your ingredients.
Place in a blender bowl the flour, salted butter cut into pieces, pour in ice water, punch into the crumb.
Gather the shortcrust pastry into a ball, make a tortilla, place in the refrigerator while you are preparing the filling.
Peel the apples, cut into quarters, arrange the seed pods, cut into thin slices, keeping the shape of the quarters.
Prepare a mixture for greasing the cake before baking, to do this, melt the butter, add 1 teaspoon. brown cane sugar, a pinch of cinnamon, combine.
Roll out the dough on a baking sheet. In order for the dough to roll out better, cover the top with another sheet of parchment. Sprinkle brown sugar on top of the dough.
Cover with a sheet of parchment and roll with a rolling pin on top.
Place the apples on top of the dough, keeping the shape of the sliced quarters. Tuck the edges of the dough, using parchment to help yourself.
Brush the cake with a mixture of butter, sugar and cinnamon. Bake the pie in the oven at 180 degrees for about 45 minutes.
Put the cooled cake on a plate, if the apples were not sweet enough, you can sprinkle the cake with powdered sugar. The result is a beautiful and delicious Breton apple pie.

Bon appetit!

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