“A nostalgic layered dessert of tart apple sauce, buttery toasted breadcrumbs and softly whipped cream, assembled in glasses so the layers show through. The poetic name means 'veiled farm girls', the cream forming the veil over the fruit.”
Where it comes from
A long-standing Scandinavian dessert popular before ice cream became common, tilslørte bondepiker is shared across the Nordic countries under different names.
On the plate
A play of textures and temperatures: cool tart apple, crunchy caramelized crumbs and cloud-soft cream in every spoonful. It tastes like an apple crumble reimagined as something light, fresh and quietly elegant.
How it works
Toasting the crumbs in butter and sugar caramelizes them for crunch and flavor, and keeping the layers separate until serving preserves the contrast between crisp crumb, soft fruit and airy cream.
Variations
with pears or plums, with crushed digestive biscuits, layered with berry jam, topped with grated chocolate
On the Palate
Ingredients
Serves 4How it's made
7 steps · Show ↓15 min active · 30 min waiting
How it's made
7 steps · Show ↓- 115 min
Peel, core and stew the apples with a little sugar and water until soft, then mash into a sauce and cool.
- 26 min
Melt butter in a pan and toast the breadcrumbs with sugar until golden and crisp.
- 35 min
Let the toasted crumbs cool so they stay crunchy.
- 44 min
Whip the cream with a touch of sugar and vanilla until softly billowing.
- 53 min
In glasses, spoon a layer of apple sauce, then a layer of toasted crumbs.
- 63 min
Add a layer of whipped cream, then repeat the layers, finishing with cream on top.
- 73 min
Decorate with a few crumbs or flaked almonds and chill briefly before serving.
