It’s fall, you’ve come home with yet another bag of apples, and you’re trying to wreck your brain for another creative way to use them up. The fridge is stocked full of apple puree, there are 3L packs of apple juice everywhere – what else can I do?!

I got you!

Imagine a sour apple slice that’s warm and turned jammy, covered in sugar and cinnamon, surrounded by flaky, buttery pastry… You take a bite and it melts in your mouth. Five minutes later you’ve eaten 8 of them already. That can be you!

Yield 8 apple pastries

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Set the oven to 190 C // 375 F.
  2. If using puff pastry that’s similar to the one linked, cut each sheet in half, so you end up with 8 squares.
  3. To cut the nice pastry pattern on each square you basically want to imagine cutting a frame all around the square, except for the 4 midpoints of each side. I normally cut a big L in each corner of the square. Do that for all other squares.
  4. Cut the butt of an apple and then proceed to cut thin round slices, about 1 cm wide. I normally get four round slices per one apple. Cut the core of each slice – since I don’t have an apple corer, I might use the lid of an Oatly milk carton. 😀 Ultimately, the apple slices should all look like donuts, you need 8 of them.
  5. Mix together some sugar with cinnamon. Dip each apple slice in the sugar and make sure their well covered. 
  6. Place one apple slice per square and fold in each corner of the pastry frame so they all meet in the middle of the apple, in the hollow part. Sprinkle the leftover sugar in the center of each apple covering the connected corners.
  7. Bake for about 30 minutes until the pastry is lightly golden. Dust with powdered sugar and enjoy them warm!