SS Xmas Baking Challenge 2021: Szarlotka (Polish Apple Pie)

[Stoner]

h/t to @SABRESfan from the Caps GDT.

Mine is in the oven right now. Unlike the great Phat Pannie debacle of several years ago, the smoke detector is not yet going off.

It's an interesting twist on American apple pie. 1. You bake it in a rectangular baking dish. 2. The apples are boiled cooked on the stove with sugar and cinnamon before going in the dish. 3. The crust is a shortbread with two sticks of butter, vanilla extract, confectioners sugar, eggs and flour. 4. It's easier to put together since there's no painstaking rolling out and fluting the crust and all that Martha Stewart crap. 5. You prebake the bottom layer, add your cooked apples and put the other half of the crust on top.

Pics to come.

Here's the recipe I used:

https://www.polonist.com/szarlotka-polish-apple-pie/&ved=2ahUKEwjF27KetN_0AhWcgnIEHUjcBv0QFnoECAoQAg&usg=AOvVaw09ORr46c8TUxmlqysJyAj5

Your turn!

Edited December 12, 2021 by PASabreFan

[SABRESfan]

You pretty much nailed it.. I like the apples slightly tart but that’s just me.. don’t forget the powdered sugar on top once it comes out of the oven! 
 

SMACZNEGO!!! 

[darksabre]

 PA, I'm comin for ya 

[Stoner]

[SABRESfan]

This is mine.  The apples are more of a pure’

[Stoner]

6 hours ago, SABRESfan said:

This is mine.  The apples are more of a pure’

Hot damn. The one time I did LSD, that's what the sky looked like.

[Stoner]

Mine was delicious, but I gotta up my aesthetics.

Let's see what d4rk brings.

[Eleven]

I step away for two days and PA turns into Martha freaking Stewart.

[Stoner]

2 minutes ago, Eleven said:

I step away for two days and PA turns into Martha freaking Stewart.

I have your shams when you're ready.

TIL you really don't want to refrigerate a shortbread crust. The top crust is now harder than inkman in line behind Mike Peca at Wegmans.

Merry Christmas!

[FogBat]

The unique thing about being a Buffalo native is the exposure to many different kinds of ethnic foods. Italian, Greek, Hispanic, Polish, and so on. As we all know, the Broadway Market is a local treasure. However, if anyone talks about pizza, lasagna, and spaghetti, I’m like Meh - just about everyone has had them. But when we start getting into things like Polska Kielbasa and such, the Poles are very underrated.

[PromoTheRobot]

We just finished dinner and I've got this in the oven right now.

Of course I can't help but mess around with the basic recipe. Those are chopped dates on top and there's a layer of dried cherries over the meringue.

[PromoTheRobot]

I followed the recipe but it still came out a little over done. Well see how it tastes.

Turned out dry. That recipe called for baking it way too long 

Edited December 25, 2021 by PromoTheRobot