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Apple Flan

Serves 8

A coworker made this for a Christmas party and I asked her for the recipe. She gave me a very vague recipe and I had to try my best not to mess it up. Luckily, it turned out perfect the first time I made it.  I’m now sharing it with all of you. Here, I am using apples, but you can use cherries, cranberries, pears or figs. It’s best served at room temperature and can also be made a day ahead..

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What you need:

For the flan dough:
200 g butter
8 tbsps sugar
2 eggs
4 tbsps milk
¼ tsp vanilla essence
20 tbsps all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder

For the apple jam mixture:
5 cups apples, peeled, cored and chopped
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
1 tsp saffron threads

How To:

1.     Preheat oven at 350F.
2.     Cream butter and sugar together. Add all the other flan ingredients and mix well. Cover and set aside.
3.     Prepare the apple jam mixture by cooking all the ingredients for about 20 minutes or until all the water has evaporated.
4.     Let the apple jam cool completely before spreading it onto the dough.
5.     Spread 2/3 of the dough in a pie pan. The larger the pan, the thinner the flan will be.
6.     Add cooled apple jam mixture on top of the dough and spread evenly.
7.     Make long thin snakes out of the remaining dough.
8.     Criss cross on top of the jam.
9.     Bake for about 30-40 minutes or until done. The flan should not become brown.
10.   Let it cool completely and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
11.   Cut flan into wedges and serve.

ENJOY!

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