Name: “Candied Apple”
Yield: Makes 9 Servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 5 large Golden Delicious apples; ½ cinnamon stick; 3½ cups water; Cinnamon sugar: 3 tablespoons sugar mixed with ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ⅔ cup uncooked farina, such as Cream of Wheat (10-minute cooking); ½ teaspoon salt; 2 allspice berries; 1 star anise; 1 cup panko (Japanese bread crumbs; see Sources) or dried bread crumbs, finely ground in a blender and sifted through a medium-mesh sieve; About 3 cups canola oil, for deep-frying; ⅔ cup mascarpone; 2 tablespoons (1 ounce) unsalted butter, at room temperature; ¼ cup sugar; ¼ cup milk; ¼ cup all-purpose flour; ¾ cup sugar; ¼ vanilla bean, split; 2 cups heavy cream; 4 cups apple juice (from about 8 Golden Delicious apples; or store-bought); 2 cups milk; 4 cups Poaching Liquid; 10 large egg yolks; 1 large egg, beaten for egg glaze; 4 ounces Puff Pastry; 1 cinnamon stick

Preparation info

Makes
9
Servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The French Laundry Cookbook

By Thomas Keller

Published 1999

About

Pastry chef Stephen Durfee created this “Cream of Wheat” dish after noticing that some Cream of Wheat that he’d cooked for his four-year-old son firmed up in the pan into a perfect disk, and he thought it would make a perfect base for a dessert. This is a terrific dessert because you’ve got the hot Cream of Wheat and the cold ice cream, and you’ve got a variety of textures, the crispy exterior of the Cream of Wheat disk, the luxurious, creamy ice cream, and the crunchy cook