Baked Apple Roses
Easy Apple Roses Recipe baked with homemade puff pastry. Fun fall dessert flavored with red wine, honey, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Servings: 6 Apple Roses
Ingredients
Apple Roses
- 1 Batch of Homemade Puff Pastry Dough *or store bought
- 3-4 Fuji or Honey Crisp Apples sliced into thin half slices
- 1 Cup (250 ml ) Red Wine
- 1/4 Cup (85 g) Honey
- 2 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 2 Tbsp ground nutmeg
Topping
- powdered sugar
Instructions
- Make a batch of Homemade Pastry Dough the day before and cut into half. If using store bought puff pastry, set it on the counter for about 30 minutes to warm before rolling out.1 Batch of Homemade Puff Pastry Dough
- Preheat oven to 375℉ (190℃). Prepare a large six well muffin tin with baking spray.
- Combine cinnamon and nutmeg in a small bowl.2 Tbsp ground cinnamon, 2 Tbsp ground nutmeg
- Slice apples in half and then using a mandolin slice into thin half slices. Cut away any leftover core.
- Place Apple Slices in medium bowl and soak with wine for 30 minutes.1 Cup (250 ml ) Red Wine , 3-4 Fuji or Honey Crisp Apples
- Remove apples slices from bowl, shaking off excess liquid.
- Arrange apple slices on a plate, try not to overlap too much and heat in the microwave for 2-3 minutes or until soft.
- Let apple slices cool.
- Roll out the pastry dough into a rectangle that's 1/8-inch thickness. Take a knife or pizza cutter and Cut into 9x2-inch strips.
- Using a pastry brush, coat the strips with a thin layer of honey and sprinkle with the cinnamon and nutmeg.1/4 Cup (85 g) Honey
- Take 8-10 apple slices and lay them across upper the half of the pastry strip. Set one down first, then the rest overlapping in a row. (see pics)
- Fold the bottom part of the exposed pastry up and over the bottom half of the apple slices.
- Starting at one end of the pasty, gently roll the pastry and apples inward. (Be careful not to let the apple slices slide out of pocket. Use your fingers to keep the pastry in place
- Roll until you have a coiled circle of pastry and apples.
- Turn the apple end right side up, with the pastry as the base. You should now have an apple rose.
- Gently place the apple rose into a muffin well. Repeat with remaining dough and apples.
- Bake apples roses for 40-45 minutes, until the pastry is golden and cooked through. (Rotate tray and loosely cover with aluminum foil halfway through to prevent apples from burning.)
- Let apple roses cool in the tray for 5-10 minutes before carefully removing.
- Sprinkle with powdered sugar and serve with ice cream!powdered sugar