How to Bake German Apple Pancakes With Fruit Butter
Makes 6 pancakes
Preparation time: 20 mins
Cooking time: 50 mins
Ingredients needed to make German Apple Pancakes With Fruit Butter:
For the fruit butter:
- 6 cups fresh fruit of your choice, peeled
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ cup lemon juice
- 1 tbsp lemon zest, finely grated
- 1 cup water
For the pancakes:
- 1 lb Granny Smith apples
- 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- ¾ cup milk
- 3 large eggs
- ¼ cup light brown sugar
- 5 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter, 2 tbsp of it is melted
- ½ tso salt
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- Icing sugar, for dusting
Cooking instructions for German Apple Pancakes With Fruit Butter:
- To make the butter, dump the fruit, sugar, water as well as juice and zest of a lemon into a dutch oven.
- Cook the mixture over high heat until they start boiling and reduce it to a simmer.
- Cook the mixture for about half an hour, while mashing it with the spatula and stirring at times, until it thickens.
- Continue to simmer the puree until it thickens further and transfer it to a food processor.
- Pulse them into a smooth puree and pass it through a sieve to do away with fruit lumps, if any.
- Store it in an air-tight container until required.
- Warm up your oven to 450 degrees F.
- Grease the sides and base of 6 jumbo muffin tins with butter and dust with granulated sugar.
- Peel and core the apples to cut it into 12 wedges and slice each wedge into 3 pieces.
- Place the apple chunks in a medium bowl and add the brown sugar, a dash of ground cinnamon and a splash of lemon juice; toss them all together to mix well.
- Add a couple of tbsp butter into a 10’’ skillet and melt it over moderate heat.
- Throw in the apples and sauté for about 10-12 minutes, while stirring at times, until they caramelize.
- Remove from heat and set aside for about 5 minutes to let the apples cool down.
- Split the apples equally into the prepared muffin tins and keep them aside until necessary.
- Add flour, salt, 2 tbsp melted butter, 5 tbsp granulated sugar and milk into a food processor.
- Crack the eggs into it and run the processor for about 3 minutes or until they blend together to form a uniform batter, free of lumps.
- Cover the apples with the batter and place the tins into the oven.
- Set the temperature of the oven down to 400 degrees F and bake the pancakes for about 15 minutes or until they puff up and are set.
- Take them out of the oven and invert them onto serving plates.
- Dust with icing sugar and serve right away with a dollop of fruit butter on top.
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