For ➑20 g yeast
15 cl milk
1 egg, beaten
250 g flour, sifted
50 g butter, softened or melted
4 sweet apples, peeled & sliced*
100 g sugar
250 g cream cheese**
2 egg yolks
vanilla sugar
50 g speculaas***
25 g almonds, shaved
3 tbs cream
salt
Mix yeast with milk. Knead with flour, butter, egg and butter into dough. Cover with a wet towel and let rise for 1 h.
Put sliced apples in a skillet, add a few spoons of water and cook. Add 25 g sugar and let cool.*
Mix cheese**, 75 g sugar, egg yolks, vanilla sugar, almonds, speculaas***, cream and a pinch of salt until creamy.
Butter a cake tin, and cover with the dough. Let rise for 45 m.
Preheat oven to 225°C.
Cover the bottom of the dough with apples*. Pour in the mixture. Bake for 30 m or until golden brown. Let it cool.
Serve with a white beer or a half-sweet white wine.
*A variation can be made with rhubarb.
**Use a low-fat cheese instead.***Speculaas are Belgian candy cookies. Subsitute with bitter-tasting cookies.
This recipe for plattekaastaart comes from a small village near Brussels, Overijse.
