Almas Pite (Hungarian Apple Cake) - cooking recipe

Ingredients

For the dough
500 g self raising flour
2 teaspoons dry yeast
5 tablespoons sugar
250 g butter, chopped
3 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream or 1 cup pure cream
For the filling
6 -7 Red Delicious apples
100 g walnuts, crushed
caster sugar
cinnamon

Preparation

To Make the Dough:
In a food processor, process butter, egg yolks and sour cream or cream.
Add the flour, dry yeast and sugar. Process until dough is light and does not stick to the sides of the processor.
If the dough is too moist, add a bit more flour, if too dry, add a bit of milk.
Cover and put in the fridge overnight.
Take the dough out of the fridge about 1-2 hours before you bake it, so the dough can soften a little.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius and greas a rectangular baking dish.
Cut the dough in two, and roll out to the size of your baking dish and place one part inches.
Sprinkle with walnuts.
Grate the apples and squeeze all the juice out.
Put apples on top of walnuts.
Sprinkle with caster sugar and cinnamon.
Put the other half of the dough on top.
Brush with a beaten egg and prick with a fork in a few places to allow steam to escape.
Bake for around 35-40 minutes.
Cool in baking dish.
Great served with cream!