Easy Fruit Ladder

I've made this fruit ladder a i chiliad one thousand times. It is super simple, fast, looks impressive on whatever dinner tabular array as well as is delicious. The dough industrial plant beautifully, is real forgiving as well as never fails!! You tin flame brand this ladder alongside whatever pre-cooked fruit filling (home made or commercial).

I stimulate got had people nation me this looks difficult to make, but trust me, it is not. There is simply i picayune trick: scroll the dough out into a rectangle as well as and hence deed it to your baking canvass BEFORE you lot endeavour to brand the ladder. You can't deed the ladder (and move along it's shape) later on it is filled. This dough is the existent hush-hush to this recipe.

Preheat oven to 350°

1 loving cup butter softened
1 loving cup sour cream
ii cups flour

Mix ingredients alongside an electrical mixer (the dough volition live a picayune viscous earlier it is chilled). Divide dough inwards one-half (this recipe makes TWO ladders). Put each ball of dough inwards roughly plastic twine as well as oil it into a large disk shape…cover good as well as refrigerate 1 hr (extremely important).

After an hour, withdraw from refrigerator and flour your counter move past times and rolling pin. Roll i of the disks into a rectangle virtually 15” x 10”. Pick upwards the crust rectangle (it volition non break) as well as position it on a lightly greased baking sheet.

Now I could describe, at length how to job this adjacent step, but a painting exhibit volition depict it much quicker:

 

Find the middle of your crust rectangle, as well as spread your fruit filling inwards a 3” broad strip, long-wise, correct downwards the middle of the rectangle (keep the fruit virtually an inch away from each terminate of the ladder). Each ladder volition accept ½ tin flame of commercial fruit filling.

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Cut the dough, on both sides of the fruit, into equal strips, but live certain you lot remain virtually an inch away from the fruit filling. Pull the strips dorsum over the fruit (one at a time) in a criss-cross fashion (the strips simply position on move past times of each other, don't crimp). The exclusively business office that is crimped is the real kickoff strip (on each terminate of the ladder), it should live pinched together.

 

Bake the fruit ladder for 30-40 minutes (in a preheated 350 aeroplane oven) or until lightly golden. Run a spatula nether the ladder to brand certain it is loose, as well as and hence slide it off onto a serving plate. Drizzle it alongside a unproblematic powdered saccharide glaze as well as decorate alongside nuts (I similar candied nuts), sprinkles, or whatever ornamentation you lot like.

 

I stimulate got tried lots of dissimilar fruits, cherry, lemon, raspberry, blueberry, apple tree strawberry, blackberry, etc. Commercial pie filling industrial plant besides every bit habitation made.