Description
These were inspired by a cook named Ana, a Brazilian food blogger living in Italy. I really hope you give these gorgeous looking, and very delicious apple roses a try soon. Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 large red apple, cored and very thinly sliced
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
- ¼ cup melted butter
- 1 egg
- 2 teaspoons water
- 1 teaspoon confectioners’ sugar (Optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Adjust an oven rack to the middle position. Butter two (6 to 8-ounce) ramekins and dust with white sugar.
- Place apple slices on a microwave-safe plate
- overlapping slightly if necessary. Microwave on high until slices slightly soften
- about 45 seconds. Cover the plate with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel.
- Mix together sugar and cinnamon in a small bowl.
- Roll puff pastry sheet to less than 1/8-inch thickness. Using a pizza cutter
- cut two (3×12-inch) rectangles. Reserve remaining pieces for another use.
- Spread melted butter over dough; sprinkle with a generous amount of cinnamon sugar. Place apple slices along one long edge of dough
- about 1/4 inch beyond the edge
- overlapping slices slightly. Fold the bottom half of dough over apple slices to form a long “folder” of dough with rounded edges of apple slices exposed.
- Beat together egg and water in a small bowl. Brush surface of dough with egg wash. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
- Starting at one end
- roll dough to form a rose-shaped pastry. Seal roll with end of dough strip. Transfer roses to the prepared ramekins. Sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
- Bake on the middle rack in the preheated oven until well browned
- about 45 minutes. Use tongs to remove the ramekins to a baking sheet to cool for 5 to 10 minutes. Remove apple roses from the ramekins and finish cooling on a wire rack. Dust with confectioners’ sugar before serving.
Prep Time: 25 mins
Cook Time: 45 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
Servings: 2