Danish Pastry Apple Bars
 
 
A flaky pastry crust surrounds tender apples in this recipe for Danish Pastry Apple Bars.
Serves: 32 bars
Ingredients
  • 2½ cups FLOUR
  • 1 teaspoon SALT
  • 1 cup SHORTENING
  • 1 EGG YOLK (you need the white later)
  • MILK
  • 1 cup CORNFLAKES
  • 8 cups peeled and sliced TART COOKING APPLES
  • 1 cup SUGAR (or less depending on how tart your apples really are)
  • 1 teaspoon GROUND CINNAMON
  • 1 EGG WHITE
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  2. Make the pastry: Combine flour and salt in a large bowl, use a pastry blender to cut in shortening - you want the mixture to resemble coarse crumbs. Put the egg yolk in a glass measuring cup and beat it lightly with a fork, measure in enough milk to make ⅔ cup and add to flour/shortening mixture. Using a fork, stir together lightly. It will be sticky after combined, divide into two pieces.
  3. Roll out the first half of pastry on a well-floured surface into a 17x12 inch rectangle. Fold together gently and transfer to a 10x15 inch baking pan. Press to fit the pan and sprinkle with the corn flakes.
  4. Layer apple slices on top of corn flakes. In a small bowl, stir together sugar and cinnamon. Sprinkle most of the cinnamon/sugar mixture over the apples. Roll out the other half of pastry into a 10x15 inch rectangle and fold together gently and place on top of apples. Unfold and pinch edges shut.
  5. Cut slits in the top crust and brush with beaten egg white. Use remaining cinnamon/sugar mixture to sprinkle over the top. Bake for 50 minutes; cover loosely with foil during the last half of baking to prevent crust from getting too brown.
Recipe by Crumbs and Chaos at http://www.crumbsandchaos.dreamhosters.com/2013/09/danish-pastry-apple-bars/