Culinary Drift Challenge - Apple Strudel

Okay, so we are more than a month late in posting the results of our apple strudel debacle.

For the record, we also made apple strudel two ways, although the first way ended up in the trash without any photos - it was that bad a mess. Which will undoubtedly surprise you when you see how the one we're posting turned out. All I'll say as a sneak preview is that it tasted better than it looked!

So the first mystery in making apple strudel was the instruction that the dough should be rolled out thin enough to read a newspaper through.



This is where things went horribly wrong both times we made it. We got it rolled out thin, really thin, but couldn't understand then how the dough was to be wrapped around the fillings without everything breaking through the dough, which was what happened when we made it.



Are you ready to see how good it looked when we rolled it up? I can guarantee you that this has gotten a lot funnier in the month since making this.



Yep, and it got even prettier when it came out of the oven. Somehow what you can't see here is the apples poking through the crust of the dough - yea, don't think that is supposed to happen. Oh... the trials and tribulations of apfelstrudelin'...



We were clearly missing some technique in making this. I would love to see someone else making it, because it seemed really, really difficult for something that seems like it's supposed to be rustic. Additionally, the photo above obscures the immensity of what we created. It could have fed a group of 20 easily.

I'm glad we gave it a second shot, but in the end felt like we would have been better off making an apple pie.

Lindsay, you'll have to show us how it's done at some point!