ELMALI TURTA

APPLE TART

Makes 35 squares.

Ingredients:

• 2 stick of butter ( in room temperature )
  
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup of plain yogurt
• 1/2 cup of granulated sugar
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla sugar
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• all purpose flour (approx 4 cups )
  

Filling:

• 5 apples (peeled and grated )
  
• 1 cup of granulated sugar
• 1 cup of chopped walnut
• 1 tbsp of ground cinnamon

Take sugar and the grated apple in a large sauce pan over medium heat. Cook until it absorbs all of its juice.Then add walnut and cinnamon to the pot. Turn the heat off.Stir and set a side. 
Shift flour, baking soda and vanilla sugar all together in a large mixing bowl. Take  butter, yogurt, and sugar in another large bowl and mix. Add shifted flour gradually to the liquid and make a soft dough.Divide the dough into two equal parts. Make a small balls with the first half of dough and place it in the freezer. Let it sit there for 30 minutes ( it will make your job much more easier when you grate the dough ).Take 13-18 inch cookie sheet and roll the second half of dough as large as the sheet and place it on the bottom of sheet. Spread the apple filling all over the dough. Last, take the other half of dough out of the freezer and grate it on top of apple filling.

Preheat the oven 350F and bake it until golden brown.