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applesauce custard filling-homemade

(1 rating)
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Recipe by
Pat Duran
@kitchenChatter
Las Vegas, NV

This is the best tasting filling for cakes, coffeecake, bread pudding, bismark doughnuts, muffins,cookies, foldovers , your oatmeal, apple bread or just by itself with a dollop of whipped cream or ice cream. Photo is of a German Torte from the kitchen of "one Perfect Bite".

(1 rating)
yield serving(s)
prep time 10 Min
cook time 20 Min
method Stove Top

Ingredients For applesauce custard filling-homemade

  • 10-15 lg
    apples, peeled, cored and cut into chunks
  • 1/2 c
    granulate sugar
  • 3 Tbsp
    rum or 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • zest of 1 lg
    lemon, finely grated
  • 2 Tbsp
    unflavored gelatin
  • 1/4 c
    water

How To Make applesauce custard filling-homemade

  • 1
    Place the apples in a 3 quart saucepan and add 2 cup water and cook until very soft. Remover from heat. Mash apples down and add sugar, rum and lemon zest. Return to low heat and cook until mixture mounds when dropped from a spoon.
  • 2
    Soften gelatin in the 1/4 c. water and dissolve over hot water. When dissolved stir it into the applesauce. Let applesauce set to cool. This mixture will thicken quickly in the refrigerator. Now it is ready to use in your favorite recipe.
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