Christmas Calendar 2016 - Christmas apple sticks

Since I first tried to bake these Ester's apple sticks in Autumn, I have known, that I wanted to make a Christmas version of them full of cinnamon, sucat and marzipan.

Christmas Apple Sticks: - 2 cakes

Dough:

• 300 g wheat flour
• 100 g butter
• 20 g fresh yeast
• 25 g sugar
• 2 g salt
• 1 egg
• 100 g milk

Filling:

• 100 g butter - soft
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g marzipan - roughly grated
• 50 g almond - roughly chopped
• 50 g sucat - roughly chopped
• 1 apple - sliced into thin boat shapes.
• chai sugar
• whipped egg for glazing

1. Add all the dough ingredients into the mixing bowl of the stand-alone mixer.
2. Knead the dough for 5 minutes on speed 2.
3. Cover the mixing bowl with a tea towel, and let the dough raise for 45-60 minutes.
4. Meanwhile make the filling.
5. Add butter and sugar into mixing bowl, stir into a homogeneous mass by hand.
6. Afterwards add in the marzipan, chopped almonds and sucat, stir everything together.
7. Heat up the oven to 220'C.
8. Divide the dough into two portions. Place each dough portion on a piece of baking paper.
9. Roll each dough portion into 15 x 25 cm.
10. Divide the filling into 2 two portions.
11. Place the filling portion in the middle of the dough. And spread out.
12. Place the apple boats on top of the filling.
13. Sprinkle the apple pieces with chai sugar.
14. Cover the filling and apple with rest of the dough.
15. Move the apple stick with baking paper to the baking tray.
16. Glaze the dough with whipped egg.
17. Bake the apple sticks at 220'C in the middle of the oven for 20 minutes.
18. Bake the apple stick, until they are golden.
19. Cold down the apple sticks on a oven rack.
20. Slice the apple sticks, when they are cold.