Ingredients

• Filo Dough
• Apples (6)
• Blackberries (at least 1 cup but as many as you want)
• Unsweetened Plant Yogurt [I use almond with vanilla in it.] (1 cup)
• Coconut Sugar (3 tablespoons)
• Cinnamon (2 teaspoons)
• Plant Butter or Coconut Oil (1/4 cup)

Process

1. Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C)
2. Peel and cut apples in to small chunks and mix with cinnamon and 2 tablespoons of coconut sugar.
3. Mix the remaining coconut sugar with the yogurt.

4. Get a baking pan which will fit your Filo Dough, and melt the butter.
5. Spread some butter on the bottom of the baking dish and then spread a few layers of dough.
6. Layer in this order: dough, butter, yogurt, apples, blackberries until you run out of ingredients.

7. Bake for 25 minutes.
8. Serve with some blackberries atop.

Notes

• I made this recipe up as a way to get rid of leftover filo dough. I call it Applava because it is reminiscent of baklava but uses, of course, apples.
• So many other things could be added to this recipe. Nuts, other fruits, perhaps some sweet seasonings like nutmeg or cloves.
• I use about 4-5 sheets per layer because I didn’t have very many apples. It can be modified have more apples or less dough or whatever suits the fancy.
• It’s a quick and easy sweet treat, but the sugar could be omitted entirely. I used a very small amount mostly because I was worried the apples would dry in the oven without something to create a ‘syrup’.

-Vegan and sesame free, as always.

-Makes 6-8 servings

-Inspired by everyone who created baklava (and a little bit of Italy with the bechamel concept, and Greek filo dough), but this is way less interesting than real baklava.