HOW TO MAKE KUCHEN - EASY CUSTARD CAKE

butter

🥗Healthier: coconut oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Coconut oil offers a dairy-free alternative with a similar texture.

almonds

🥗Healthier: walnuts

💰Cheaper: sunflower seeds

Walnuts provide healthy fats while being more affordable.

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: agave syrup

Honey is a natural sweetener that can enhance flavor.

eggs

🥗Healthier: flaxseed meal

💰Cheaper: applesauce

Flaxseed meal can replace eggs for binding in baked goods.

Start by making the custard: In a saucepan over medium heat, combine heavy cream and granulated sugar, pouring the sugar in a stream.

Whisk the mixture until it thickens.

Cover the custard with plastic wrap, ensuring the plastic touches the surface to prevent a skin from forming, and let it cool in the fridge.

Prepare the fruit filling: In a pan, melt unsalted butter and add diced apples, spices, salt, and brown sugar.

Cook the apple mixture for about 10 minutes on the stove until softened.

Add corn starch to the apple mixture and cook for another couple of minutes until thickened.

For the pastry dough, whisk together an egg, sugar, salt, vegetable oil, and warm milk in a bowl.

Add active dry yeast to the mixture and stir.

Gradually add all-purpose flour and stir until the dough comes together; no dough hook is needed.

Transfer the dough to a bowl, cover loosely with plastic wrap, and let it rise in a warm place for about 1 to 1.5 hours until it doubles in volume.

Once risen, cut the dough into four parts and roll out each part.

Butter a 9-inch pie dish and place one rolled-out dough into it.

Add the cooled fruit filling on top of the dough.

Pour the cooled custard over the fruit filling.

Bake in a preheated oven at 350°F for 20 minutes.

Allow the dessert to cool completely and refrigerate to set before cutting.

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