Super Slow Reddish Strudel

This strudel is made alongside Pepperidge Farm Puff Pasty (from the freezer section) in addition to it couldn't live easier. It slices beautifully in addition to it is delicious served warm alongside a big scoop of vanilla H2O ice cream, but it is also fantabulous at room temperature. It is a huge striking at our house!!

 

 

1 canvas of frozen puff pastry (thawed)
(1) 14½ oz. tin blood-red tart pie cherries packed inwards water
¾ loving cup granulated carbohydrate (divided)
2 tablespoons + 1 teaspoon corn starch
pinch of salt
¼ teaspoon almond extract
2 drops blood-red nutrient coloring (optional)

Drain the cherries (but salvage the juice).  Mix ½ loving cup of the juice from the cherries, with one-half of the carbohydrate and all of the cornstarch in addition to a pinch of salt.

Cook (constantly stirring) the juice mixture on medium oestrus for iii or four minutes or until it gets ULTRA thick.  Remove from oestrus in addition to stir inwards the residual of the sugar, the drained cherries in addition to almond extract. Mix good in addition to seat simply about plastic twine on the surface of the hot mixture and chill for an hr (or until actually cold).

CRUST
You tin either let one canvas of puff pastry (a box comes alongside two sheets) thaw inwards the fridge overnight (thats the best) or you lot tin speed thaw on the kitchen counter (I twine it inwards plastic wrap) for virtually an hour. The box says forty minutes, but it actually is a lot easier to run alongside if you lot permit it sit down for an hour.

Dust your counter alongside a petty flour in addition to ringlet out the dough to a 12" x 16" rectangle.  Spread the cherry filling on ane half (keep it virtually an inch away from the sides) similar this:

 

 

Starting alongside the fruit end, simply ringlet it upward in addition to crease the ends.  Lay it on a parchment newspaper lined baking canvas (or spray alongside vegetable spray). in addition to brush it all over alongside egg launder (1 egg beaten alongside a teaspoon of water). Sprinkle generously alongside granulated carbohydrate in addition to thence cutting a few slash marks across the come about of the strudel (for venting) but don't cutting likewise deep.

 

 

Bake inwards preheated 375 oven for 35 minutes, or until golden brown.  Makes ane 12" strudel. Enjoy!!

NOTE: For those who aren't familiar alongside it, Pepperidge Farm Puff Pastry is institute inwards the freezer department of your grocery store, nigh the Cool Whip etc., it comes inwards a 17.3 ounce bundle that contains two sheets.