• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • about Dom in the Kitchen
  • contact me
  • pr & demo’s
  • Private Dining

Dom in the Kitchen Homepage

Recipes from my Lincolnshire kitchen

  • Home
  • Chicken Thighs
  • Bread
  • Cakes
  • Eggs
  • Vegetarian
  • Everything else

apple, cranberry & cinnamon strudel biscuit swirls

20 October 2020 by Dominic Franks

apple strudel biscuits

So these apple, cranberry & cinnamon strudel biscuit swirls are my mums ‘go-to’ easy treats, especially if she’s been doing a lot of pastry making and has some left-over.  They’re so terrifically simple to make and can be adapted to pretty much any ingredients you have in your larder.  They would also work well with pears, or a mix of apples and pears.  I’m using a divine raspberry and rose jam from the amazing Abundance Street Bakehouse but whatever jam you have in your larder, or marmalade would be nice too.  Also, in terms of dried fruits, just use what you’ve got.  I had some dried cranberries from buywholefoodsonline.com which were gloriously sweet, plus some left-over dried fruit from last Christmas.

Talking of Christmas (if we may?) These are actually a brilliant bake for Christmas.  They’re very quick to put together and if we’re ever allowed to have people in our houses again, they’re great for the gang to have laying about.  Wonderful with a cuppa in front of the fire on a cold winter day.

apple strudel biscuits

for the almond and yoghurt pastry
  • 110g butter , diced
  • 200g plain flour
  • 50g ground almonds
  • 2 tablespoons Greek yoghurt
  • 75g caster sugar
  • zest 1 lemon
  • 1 egg – beaten

for the filling

  • 3 or 4 cooking apples (I used Bramley’s) – grated (I leave the skin on because it’s too much of a faff to bother)
  • jam or marmalade of your choice
  • a handful of dried fruit such as sultanas or cranberries
  • cinnamon

To make the pastry, rub the butter and yoghurt into the flour and almonds. Add the sugar and zest, then the beaten egg. Bring everything together into a ball, wrap in cling film and chill for at least 15 mins.

Grate the apples and gently squeeze out the juice.  You want them a little moist but not so much that they make the pastry soggy as they cook.  All apples have different quantities of juice so it really depends on how moist your apples are. Set aside the rest of the filling ingredients ready to start the assembly of the strudel.

Pre-heat the oven to 175C and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.

Generously flour your work surface and roll out the pastry to a rough rectangle (roughly 30cm x 40cm) don’t worry about it being neat or perfect, and spread your jam or marmalade all over the pastry.

Next, distribute the grated apple evenly over the jam, followed by some dried fruit and finally a sprinkling of cinnamon.

Careful roll the pastry up in a tight roll, then slice the sausage shape into separate biscuits.  You should get roughly 20 spirals out of the length..

Bake for 35 mins or until they are darkly golden, then remove them from the oven and let them cool on a wire rack until the firm up.

apple strudel biscuits

Eat and of course, enjoy!

Share this post:

Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Pinterest Share on LinkedIn Share on E-mail

Filed Under: Cakes Tagged With: apple strudel, apples, baking, biscuits, bramley apples, christmas, cinnamon, strudel

Previous Post: « quince and vanilla puree crumble tart
Next Post: apple cinnamon cobbler »

Reader Interactions

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Comments

  1. Rebecca says

    25 October 2020 at 8:43 pm

    These are delicious, and good when you have a bounty of apples and jam.

    • Dominic Franks says

      26 October 2020 at 7:20 am

      Thanks Rebecca

  2. Nic | Nic's Adventures & Bakes says

    27 October 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Thanks for sharing, these look very yummy 🙂

    Nic | Nic’s Adventures & Bakes

    • Dominic Franks says

      27 October 2020 at 5:49 pm

      thanks Nic xx

Primary Sidebar

About Dom In The Kitchen

My name is Dominic, I am a cook, food writer and creative event producer. I write the food blog Dom In The Kitchen and also write a monthly recipe column for Lincolnshire Life Magazine and Good Taste Magazine. I also run creative event production company The Persuaders, producing global events for brands since 1997. I am based both in the small village of Belleau in Lincolnshire and the smaller village of London! Read More…

Subscribe

Get new posts by email:
Powered by follow.it
  • Bloglovin
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter

Archives

Tweets by @DomInTheKitchen

as featured in Lincolnshire Life Magazine

Lincolnshire Life

creatively managed by

The Persuagers
Belleau Cottage

Footer

This error message is only visible to WordPress admins

Error: No feed found.

Please go to the Instagram Feed settings page to create a feed.

&copy 2010 - 2021 | All rights reserved | Website by Peckish Digital