Cinnamon Apple Studel

This recipe has been so modified from the recipe it started as, I can legitimately call it my own. It uses some of the tricks I learned with the caramel cinnamon apple ugly cookies. It starts with cooking down Gala apples in sugar, brown sugar and spice until they are half cooked. Then the mixture is mixed with a little flour, rolled in puff pastry and baked. When I pulled it out, it had some weird appendages of puff pastry. I have no clue what they are from. It goes into the oven looking a lumpy mess, and comes out looking like a giant hot pocket. Hopefully I will post reactions tomorrow. Also, congratulations to James and Becky on their new baby girl! We wish her and her parents the very best and can't wait till she visits the office!



Ingredients

• 1 sheet puff pastry, thawed
• 3 gala apples, cored and cut into small chunks
• 3 table spoons white sugar
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4 cup raisins
• generous dash cinnamon
• generous sprinkle allspice
• 2 teaspoons flour
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon water

Directions

1. Roll out thawed puff pastry dough to 12" x 16"
2. Cook apples, sugars, spices and raisins until apples are mostly tender.
3. Mix flour with apple mixture and place at one end of puff pastry. Roll into strudel and position in center of cookie sheet. There will be extra apple mixture left over, spoon that over vanilla ice cream while the strudel is in the oven.
4. Brush outside of pastry with egg and water mixture.
   
5. Bake at 375 until puff pastry is golden brown. The time will vary based upon how thin/thick your puff pastry is, mine took 15 minutes. Set your timer for 10 minutes and check every few minutes until done.
6. Cool on wire rack and serve warm.
7. Post a comment if you can figure out what those appendages are in the below photo.