Baking a Traditional German Apple Streusel

It was the Geek's birthday at the beginning of the month. When I asked him what kind of cake he wants he said "a real German Apfelstreuselkuchen" (apple crumble pie). So I baked one for him.

When I posted the top picture on my Facebook page I received quite some requests for the recipe. Since I thought that some of you might like to try it as well, I translated it - however, it is still in metric.

What you'll need:

for the dough:

250 g flour

1 tbsp baking powder

100 g sugar

1 package vanilla sugar (you can find Dr. Oetker brand in Cost Plus)

1 egg

1 egg yolk

100 g butter

bread crumbs

for the filling:

5 big apples (I used Honeycrisp and just took as many as I needed to cover the dough)

juice of half a lemon

2 tbsp brown raw sugar

½ tsp cinnamon

for the streusel/crumbs:

120 g butter, melted

150 g flour

130 g sugar

3 pinches cinnamon

Preheat oven to 400°F. Grease a springform and sprinkle with bread crumbs. Knead a dough using the first seven ingredients. Spread it in the springform, leaving a small edge at the sides.

Peel the apples, remove core and cut in slices. Mix with lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon.

Spread the apple slices narrowly on top of the dough (sorry, I forgot to take a picture of this)

Knead the streusel/crumbs using the melted, cooled down butter, flour, sugar and cinnamon, and spread them on top of the apples.

Bake at 400°F for about 1 hour.

And then - enjoy it! Either warm with vanilla ice cream or - as we did - cool with real whipping cream (not the stuff out of the spray bottle).