Apple Roses, the Viral Recipe For A Special Occasion
Apple Roses, the Viral Recipe for a special luncheon or fancy tea party.
What’s not to like about puff pastry and sliced apples in a muffin pan
becoming lovely edible roses?
Lately my Pinterest feed has been saturated with pictures of baked apple roses with a puff pastry crust.
They are beautiful, (well, most of them), and everyone brags that they’re easy to make.
Our family is big on apple cakes and apple crisps and apple pies. Actually, any dessert with apples gets five star ratings at this house.
So trying this version of a “very simple apple dessert” seems natural. Especially since they look like they’d be a recipe to impress for a fancy tea party or birthday luncheon. (Which are something we enjoy because we get to do all the stationery design stuff!!)
More delicious Apple Dessert Recipes on Kim+INK:
Fall Harvest Apple Desserts and Apple Season Desserts.
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Which Clever Pastry Chef invented apple roses?
I researched the origins of this recipe that has the grocery stores cleaned out of puff pastry, however, I didn’t find much info.
A type of this recipe goes back to the 18th century, upon which a baker based her recipe back in 2011.
The English baker posted a recipe for Apple Rose Tarts, which were a little more work than using puff pastry.
It seems that a certain Manuela first posted the recipe in 2015, which appears to be the earliest sighting of the puff pastry tarts on social media today.
Find the recipe on the blog, Cooking With Manuela. These are her pictures:
Manuela cautions:
Make sure the pastry is fully cooked on the inside before removing the roses from the oven! If after the first 30 minutes the apples start to burn on top, move the pan to a lower rack of the oven and finish baking. You can also cover the pan loosely with aluminum foil for the last 10-15 minutes, to avoid burning the top.
I will say here that the pastries can have very burnt tops by the time they’re done. So I would say go for the aluminum foil.
Also, there’s a cream cheese variation of the recipe I want to try, where you replace the apricot preserves with 1/4 cup of cream cheese and 3 tablespoons of sugar.
Viral Recipe: Apple Roses
Our Apple Roses Recipe:
Fancy Apple Roses
Ingredients
- 1/2 pkg puff pastry sheets, thawed
- 2 red apples
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp flour
- 3 tbsp apricot preserves
Instructions
- Prepare a bowl with the lemon juice and a cup of water. Wash the red apples, then cut them in quarters and remove the cores. Slice thinly into the bowl of lemon water. Microwave the apples in the bowl about 3 minutes.
- Sprinkle the flour onto a clean table top, then unroll the puff pastry on top of the flour. Roll the dough into a 12" x 9" rectangle. Cut into 6 strips, 2" x 9".
- Mix the apricot preserves with 2 tbsp of water. Warm in the microwave until smooth. Spread onto the puff pastry dough in a thin layer.
- Heat oven to 375°. Drain the apples and pat dry on paper towel.
- Arrange the apple slices on the dough strips, with the red skin showing above one long edge. Fold up the bottom of the dough onto apple slices. Pick up one end of the strips and roll up. Place in muffin pan.
- Place in heated oven and bake 45 minutes. After the first 25 minutes, place foil over the top to prevent too much browning. Turn the oven down to 325° to finish baking.
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Have you tried the Apple Roses Recipe already?
If you have, we’d love to hear how they turned out for you, and which occasion you made them for.
If you still want to, pin this recipe to try in the future.
