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Apple and Cream Cheese Strudel

4 apples, peeled, quartered, sliced
1/4 cup caster sugar
finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
8 sheets of filo pastry
1/2 cup sugar
2 tsp ground cinnamon
100g almond meal
60g butter, melted
200g cream cheese chopped
sifted icing sugar for dusting

1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Put apple, sugar, lemon rind and juice in a medium bowl and toss to combine.
2. Put pastry on a clean work surface and cover with a damp tea towel. Combine sugar, cinnamon and almond meal in a small bowl. Brush 1 pastry sheet with melted butter. Add 2 heaped Tbsp of the almond mix. continue layering with pastry, spread cream cheese, then apple mix along 1 long side, leaving a 5cm border at each end. Fold in ends and roll up firmly.
3. Put roll, seam side down, on prepared tray. Brush top with butter. Bake for 20-25 mins or until golden on top and apple is tender. Stand tray on wire rack for 5-10 mins to cool. Dust roll with icing sugar to serve.

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