This Sky View Apple Strudel is a bit of a family favourite. It’s stuffed to the brim with apples, sultanas, cinnamon, brown sugar and more and when you add icecream to the finished dish it’s a hug in a bowl.

Ingredients

• 1 bag Sky View Stanthorpe dried apples
• ½ cup of sultanas
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 1 good glurp of honey mead, bourbon or rum (optional)
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ cup hot water
• 1 cup light brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons Plain flour
• 1 sheet thawed puff pastry
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/4 cup raw sugar for dusting
• Icecream or cream for serving
• Cinnamon to dust

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 180 C.  Line a baking tray with baking paper.
• In a large bowl, combine the apples, sultanas, vanilla, honey mead, cinnamon, hot water and let stand for 15 minutes until the apples soften and the sultanas start to plump up a bit.Toss in the brown sugar and flour. Stir to coat evenly.
• Place the pastry onto the baking tray and spread the apple mixture evenly down the middle of the sheet lengthwise.
• Cut the sides of the pastry into strips and fold them over – one strip from each side to form a braid pattern (see the photo) Brush as you go with egg wash.
• Dust with raw sugar
• Bake for 35 – 40 minutes, until golden brown. 
• Serve warm, with lashings of cream or icecream dusted with some cinnamon.