Baked Apple Christmas Star

COOK TIME
90 mins

TOTAL TIME
90 mins

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Melt the butter. Wash apples and, except for one, peel and quarter them and remove the core. Cut quarters into slices and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Wash the sultanas and let them drain on a sieve. Bring apple juice and 100 g sugar to the boil, add apple slices and sultanas and cook in a closed saucepan for about 5 minutes. Pour into a sieve and drain. Collect the juice and use it for other purposes. Put the compote back into the pot. Cut 100 g marzipan into cubes and mix in the hot compote.

2. 2

   Whip 100 g sugar and eggs with the whisk of the hand mixer until creamy white. Add warm butter while stirring constantly. Fold in ground almonds. Grease baking frame (23 cm Ø; 7 cm high) in star shape. Place the base on baking paper and fold the excess paper closely along the frame. Pour the dough into the frame and bake in a preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 25 minutes. Remove the cake, spread compote on the cake and bake for another 10 minutes. Take out and put in a cool place. Soak gelatine in cold water. Whip the cream until stiff, adding 100 g sugar. Squeeze the gelatine and dissolve in warm water. Stir 1 tablespoon of sour cream into the gelatine. Quickly stir the gelatine and sour cream mixture into the remaining sour cream. Fold in the cream. Spread the cream and sour cream over the cake and chill for approx. 3 hours. Colour each 50 g marzipan with red or green food colouring. Roll out on a work surface sprinkled with icing sugar and cut out 7 stars.

3. 3

   Soak gelatine in cold water. Whip the cream until stiff, adding 100 g sugar. Squeeze the gelatine and dissolve in warm water. Stir 1 tablespoon of sour cream into the gelatine. Quickly stir the gelatine and sour cream mixture into the remaining sour cream. Fold in the cream. Spread the cream and sour cream over the cake and chill for approx. 3 hours. Colour each 50 g marzipan with red or green food colouring. Roll out on a work surface sprinkled with icing sugar and cut out 7 stars. Boil 50 g sugar and 3 tablespoons of water. Add the almonds and simmer for 3-5 minutes until the sugar is slightly caramelised. Spread the almonds on a piece of baking paper and let them cool down. Cut remaining apple into seven slices, remove seeds and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Remove the cake from the frame. Dab apple slices dry. Decorate the star with apple slices, marzipan stars and almonds. Dust with cinnamon sugar

4. 4

   Boil 50 g sugar and 3 tablespoons of water. Add the almonds and simmer for 3-5 minutes until the sugar is slightly caramelised. Spread the almonds on a piece of baking paper and let them cool down. Cut remaining apple into seven slices, remove seeds and sprinkle with 1 tablespoon lemon juice. Remove the cake from the frame. Dab apple slices dry. Decorate the star with apple slices, marzipan stars and almonds. Dust with cinnamon sugar

5. 5

   3 1/2 hours waiting time

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
690 kcal

CARBS
48 g

FATS
50 g

PROTEINS
11 g