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Grandma's Apple Platz - an apple dessert recipe

Grandma's Apple Dessert Recipe, known as Platz, is  a super simple and easy German, dessert that is straight from Grandmas Kitchen. It's sweet, buttery and delicious! You can even change it up to use whatever fruit you have on hand.
Course Dessert
Cuisine German
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 12 -16
Author FoodFaithFitness

Ingredients

  • For the Crust:
  • 1 Cup Whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1 Cup All purpose flour
  • 1/2 tsp Salt
  • 4 tsp Baking powder
  • 1/4 cup Sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/4 cup + 2 Tbsp Milk we used 1%
  • 4 Tbsp Butter at room temperature
  • For the topping:
  • 2 Small apples
  • 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 3/4 Cup All purpose flour
  • 3/4 -1 Cup Whole wheat pastry flour
  • 1/2 Cup Butter at room temperature

Instructions

  • Begin by making the crust:
  • Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Spray a 9x13 inch pan with cooking spray and set aside.
  • Into a large bowl, sift together the dry ingredients.
  • Rub in the butter until you have fine crumbs.
  • In a separate measuring cup, measure the milk and then beat the egg into the milk.
  • Stir the egg/milk mixture into the flour mixture and mix until well combined and a dough forms.
  • Roll the dough out on a floured counter top to fit the 9x13 pan, and place into the prepared pan, pressing the dough around the pan to make an edge. *
  • Slice each apple into 16 chunks (quarter it, and slice each quarter into 4) and spread evenly over top of the crust. Set aside.
  • Make the crumbs:
  • Mix together the sugar and flour and then rub in the butter to make coarse crumbs. **
  • Sprinkle the crumbs evenly over the apples and then bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the top is golden brown and crunchy.
  • Devour!

Notes

* You will have leftover dough. I tried to get the recipe to be the perfect amount but Grandma said it was too hard to get the proportions right. You will use a little over 1/2 - 3/4 of the crust dough. Grandma recommends freezing the rest and making another smaller platz :)
** We used about 1 3/4 cup flour. Start with 1 1/2 and see how your crumbs feel. They should not form one big ball, but should be slightly dry and be easy to crumble.