(Ree's caramel apple pie is basically an apple streusel pie with an oat streusel topping.)
Or it can come in the form of a sheet cake, bar, pie, or muffin. Apple streusel can be served straight-up: cooked apples with a streusel topping. The term 'streusel' typically refers to a crumbly topping made from butter, sugar and flour. Apple strudel is a thin pastry filled with apples. Their names sound similar and they both contain apples, but that's where the similarities end. What is the difference between apple strudel and apple streusel? The filling is often made from cooked apples, sugar, cinnamon and bread crumbs. The pastry in a classic strudel is a thin and elastic unleavened dough consisting of flour, oil or butter, water and salt. This recipe calls for store-bought phyllo dough, which is widely available in the freezer section of most grocery stores. The shortcut ingredient will not only save you time, it'll make scratching apple strudel off of your fall baking bucket list much easier! Making strudel (a traditional Viennese pastry) from scratch is a labor of love that takes practiced skill to roll and stretch.
