Festive Strudel

Name: Festive Strudel
Prep time: 1 h 40 min
Cook time: 1 h 40 min
Total time: 1 h 40 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 3 apples or pears, or 2 quince, or a mixture of the three; 128 grams 125 g butter, melted; 50 grams good-quality chocolate (70-percent cocoa solids), roughly chopped; 8 servings Ready-made custard, to serve; 99 grams 100 g Demerara sugar (natural brown sugar or turbinado); 12 sheets filo pastry (if frozen, thaw), approximately 9 ounces/ 250 g; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 4 ginger nuts; 397 grams 400 g leftover Christmas pudding

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Festive Strudel a try. This recipe serves 8. One serving contains 537 calories, 10g of protein, and 24g of fat. Head to the store and pick up g christmas pudding, ground cinnamon, chocolate, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 40 minutes.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C/ 350 degrees F/ Gas

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Lay out 6 sheets of filo pastry on a clean tea towel, overlapping each by an inch or so, so they cover the tea towel.

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Filo Pastry

Tea

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Kitchen Towels

Cook's Note: The filo should cover the tea towel completely, with just a little overhang at one of the shorter ends.

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Tea

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Work quickly so your pastry doesn't dry out and brush some melted butter all over it.

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Butter

Sprinkle over the cinnamon and 2 ounces/ 50 g of the sugar, then crumble over your ginger nuts to add a nice bit of crunch. Carefully layer the rest of the pastry sheets on top and brush again with butter.

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Cinnamon

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Ginger

Sugar

Nuts

Use your hands to crumble the Christmas pudding into a bowl then grate in the fruit, cores and all. You want to have about the same amount of grated fruit as you've got pudding.

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Fruit

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Add about 2 tablespoons of sugar, and mix it all together to break up the pudding a bit more.

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Sugar

Sprinkle this all over the pastry so it's roughly covered, leaving the overhang clear.

Place the chocolate in a row on top of the Christmas pudding, down the short side nearest the overhang.

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Chocolate

Fold the overhang over the chocolate and pinch it up, then lift up your tea towel, and use it to help you carefully roll up your strudel. Tuck the ends under to seal it and transfer to a large nonstick pan.

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Chocolate

Roll

Tea

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Brush it all over with butter then sprinkle over a little more sugar.

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Butter

Sugar

Bake in the hot oven for about 40 minutes until crisp, golden and gorgeous looking. It might split a bit and look slightly rustic, but I think that's quite nice. Cook's Note: You could wrap an extra layer of filo round it before cooking if you want it to look a bit neater.

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