Apple Roses
Beautiful to look at, delicious to eat and deceptively easy to make. They are delicious hot out of the oven with ice cream or cream drizzled on top.
Equipment
- Muffin tray
- Microwave
- Pastry brush
Ingredients
- 325 g Ready Rolled Light Puff Pastry
- 2 tbsp Apricot jam With 2 tbsp water
- 2 medium Apples Red-skinned ones look best in the finished roses
- ½ medium Lemon Juiced
- 2 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch Ground ginger
- 12 spray Spray oil Or butter or margarine for greasing the muffin tray
Instructions
- Grease 6 holes of the muffin tray with butter, margarine or spray oil.
- Half and core the apples, leaving the skins on as it adds to the finished look. Slice them really thinly, around 1mm thick. Put into a microwave safe bowl half filled with water with half the lemon squeezed in (no pips). Microwave for about 3 minutes then drain the water out gently.
- Unroll the puff pastry and use a knife to gently cut it into 6 evenly sized strips along the longer edge.
- Add the apricot jam to a small bowl or ramekin with 2tbsp water and microwave for 1 minute and stir together. Use a pastry brush to paint the jam mix along each puff pastry strip.
- Lay a piece of apple over the puff pastry so the flat edge is parallel to the line of the pastry but about 1cm below the top of the pastry, and with the top of the crescent going over the top of the pastry about 1cm. i.e. the apple extends over the top of the pastry and sticks on the bottom. Put the next crescent of apple half on top of the apple slice before in the same orientation, and keep repeating until there is apple all along the length of the pastry.
- Sprinkle ⅙ of the ground ginger and cinnamon over the apple pieces. Fold up the puff pastry along the length so the apple pieces are sandwiched between the folded puff pastry piece, then roll up from one end to make the rose.
- Put the completed rose into a muffin tray then repeat for the remaining 5 strips of pastry and softened apple. Bake at 190C for 40-45 minutes.
- Serve with a little icing sugar over the top and vanilla ice cream for extra decadence.
Notes
My daughter loves laying the apples along the pastry and rolling them up, and also loves eating them.