Ingredients for the apple mixture
Ingredients for the bread mixture
Cut the rolls into small cubes.
Lightly brown the butter in a pan, add the bread cubes, and lightly brown them, stirring constantly. Add a tablespoon of sugar, stir and allow to cool.
Cut the apples, with the peel, into thin slices. Mix with the cinnamon sugar, grappa, pine nuts, sultanas and nuts and let the mixture steep.
Mix the eggs with a tablespoon of sugar and the vanilla sugar, add the cream and stir. Add the bread cubes to the egg and cream mixture and mix everything well.
Grease a flat baking dish with butter and apportion half of the bread mixture into it. Onto that then add first the apple mixture and then the remaining bread mixture. Bake in the oven on a medium heat for 30 minutes until the surface is brown and crisp.