Christmas apple cigars

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 400 g apples, preferably Boskop
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 40 g walnuts
• 10 g butter
• 25 g raisins
• ½ pkt. vanilla sugar
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 4 slices of puff pastry
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tbsp milk
• some honey
• 4 scoops of ice cream, preferably walnut ice cream
• some powdered sugar for dusting
• 4 halved walnuts

Instructions

Working time approx. 40 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 25 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 5 minutes

can be partially prepared

Wash and peel the apples, remove the cores, and cut the flesh into pieces. Drizzle the apple pieces with lemon juice. Roughly chop the walnuts. Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the walnuts, raisins, diced apple, cinnamon, and vanilla sugar and sauté for 2-3 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally. Halve the puff pastry sheets, roll them out, and fill them with the mixture. Roll each sheet into a log. Whisk the egg yolk with the milk and brush the puff pastry with it. Place the logs on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake for 20-25 minutes at 180°C. Remove the apple cigars, arrange them on plates, and drizzle with honey. Place a scoop of walnut ice cream on the plates and sieve everything over with powdered sugar. Place half a walnut on each slice of ice cream and serve the apple cigars.