Christmas baked apple tiramisu

Ingredients for 6 servings:

• 200 g whipped cream
• 6 tbsp, levelled sugar
• 1 vanilla pod(s), pulp
• 1 stalk(s) cinnamon
• 250 g mascarpone
• 300 ml apple juice
• 1 tbsp lemon peel, untreated, grated
• 5 apples, sour (e.g. Boskoop)
• 1 tsp gingerbread spice or speculatius spice
• 50 g almond flakes, roasted
• 50 g raisins or cranberries, if desired
• Cinnamon – sugar for sprinkling
• 400 g speculatius (spiced speculatius)

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 2 hours; Cooking/baking time approx. 15 minutes; Total time approx. 2 hours 45 minutes

without alcohol and without espresso, therefore a hit with children

First, prepare the apple compote, as it needs to cool again. Peel the apples and cut them into small pieces. Heat them in a saucepan with the apple juice and add the raisins (cranberries) – if you don’t like raisins and cranberries, you can omit them. Season with half the sugar, the cinnamon stick, and the gingerbread or speculatius spice. Halve the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds. Add the seeds to the apple compote and simmer until the apple pieces are soft but not yet falling apart. This will take about 10 minutes, depending on the type of apple. Now add the toasted flaked almonds and remove the cinnamon stick, then let everything cool in a bowl. You should have soft apple pieces with raisins (cranberries) in a spicy broth. For the cream, mix the mascarpone with the remaining sugar and the lemon zest until smooth. Carefully fold in the whipped cream. First, place a layer of speculatius biscuits in a baking dish. Spread about half of the baked apple compote on top, soaking the biscuits in the liquid. Then add a layer of mascarpone and cream mixture. Place a layer of speculatius biscuits on top of the cream, pour the baked apple compote and liquid over it, and finally cover everything with a layer of cream. Cover everything with foil and let it set in the refrigerator for about 2-4 hours. For Christmas, I decorate the cream. I cut out little stars, bells, or angels from paper (use cookie cutters as stencils) and place them on the cream. Then I dust everything with cinnamon sugar and carefully lift the paper shapes off with tweezers.