Homemade Sour Cherry Strudel Recipe
Imagine sinking your teeth into a warm, freshly baked pastry that is bursting with the tangy sweetness of cherries with this homemade sour cherry strudel.
Servings: 24 portions
Ingredients
Dough
- 3.5 cups flour all purpose Robin Hood preferred
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil or canola + 2 tbsp oil
- 1 egg
- 1 cup warm water + 2 tbsp
Filling
- 3 cups sour cherries pitted
- ¾ cup sugar
- ½ cup crushed digestive cookies any dried cookies (or use bread crumbs - but need more sugar if not using cookies
Instructions
- Place pitted cherries in a frying pan and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. Add sugar and mix, continue sauteeing for 5 minutes. Stir occasionally. Strain the cooked cherries for 20 minutes to reduce excess juices. Some juices ok but not a lot.
- Sprinkle crushed cookies (or bread crumbs) over top of butter dough.
- Spread the filling over the top of the dough, on the side closest to you, about ¼ of the pastry covered.
- Begin to roll pastry into a long tube starting with the side that has the cherry filling on top. Continue rolling until the entire pastry is wrapped.
- Transfer to lightly greased pan.
- Bake 390F for 23 minutes and check if golden color.