Apple pie with coconut meringue

Name: Apple pie with coconut meringue
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour; 800 g sour apples (e.g. Cox Orange); 3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 2 TABLESPOONS + 100 g + 175 g sugar; 5 Eggs (Gr. M); 125 g soft butter/margarine; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Salt; 175 g Flour; 2 coated Tsp Baking Powder; 3 TABLESPOONS Rum; 100 g + 1 tablespoon grated coconut; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

AUTHOR
Isreal Robertson

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
40 mins

TOTAL TIME
40 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour
800 g sour apples (e.g. Cox Orange)
3 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
2 TABLESPOONS + 100 g + 175 g sugar
5 Eggs (Gr. M)
125 g soft butter/margarine
1 package Vanillin sugar
7-10 Tbsp Salt
175 g Flour
2 coated Tsp Baking Powder
3 TABLESPOONS Rum
100 g + 1 tablespoon grated coconut
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar

Directions

1
Grease a springform pan (26 cm Ø; approx. 8 cm high) and dust with flour. Peel, quarter, core and roughly dice apples. Mix with lemon juice and 2 tbsp. sugar
2
Separate 3 eggs. Chill 3 egg whites. Cream fat, 100 g sugar, vanillin sugar and 1 pinch of salt. Stir in 2 eggs and 3 egg yolks separately. Mix flour and baking powder and stir in alternately with rum in portions. Brush into the mould. Spread the apples on top, pressing them slightly into the dough. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/gas: level 2) for approx. 30 minutes
3
Beat 3 egg whites and 1 pinch of salt until stiff. While continuing to beat, add 175 g sugar and continue beating until it is completely dissolved. Fold in 100 g grated coconut. Spread on the cake and sprinkle with 1 tbsp. grated coconut. Bake at the same temperature for about 10 minutes. Let it cool down. Dust with icing sugar