With a pack of puff pastry lurking in the freezer I had a yen for making them again, looked up my post about them and referred back to the original source; a blog which you can see here. There I found a really good idea in the comments for making them using apple compote and apple slices. "Now there's a thing" I thought and, rather than go out and buy some raspberries, I decided to give it a try. We always have apple compote in the house as we have it most days on our cereal or porridge.
At first I put two wedges of apple onto each square of pastry but soon realised that there was too much filling so removed one wedge from them all. By the time I had done this the compote was already spreading and every one frankly looked a soggy mess. Thinking this experiment was not going well and the turnovers were likely to turn out like a dog's dinner I put them in the fridge to chill and firm up a bit in the hope that they might be rescued.
They turned out fine, much better than expected, and definitely worth baking again. Leftovers had lost a bit of their crispness by the next day but were still delicious.
Ingredients
1 pack of ready made, ready rolled puff pastry
12 tsp apple compote
1 - 2 small eating apples, peeled, cored and cut into thin wedges
milk and demerara sugar to finish
icing sugar to decorate (optional)
Method
Take the pastry out of the fridge and allow to come to room temperature well before using, at least half an hour. Pastry that is still chilled will crack when you unroll it.
Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
Unroll the pastry and cut in half along its length. Cut each half into squares of equal size. (The number of squares will be determined by the dimensions of your sheet of pastry as it’s important that the squares are exactly square and not oblong.)
Put a teaspoon of compote and one wedge of apple on a square, slightly off centre. Dampen the edges of the square and fold it diagonally over the filling to form a triangle. Press the edges together then seal by pressing a fork into the pastry along the edge. Repeat with the rest of the squares and make three small slashes in the top of each triangle.
Brush each puff with milk and sprinkle with demerara sugar. Arrange the puffs on the baking sheet with a little room between each for spreading and chill in the fridge for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200°C / 180° fan while the puffs are chilling. Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden brown. The compote will leak out a bit but this adds to the charm of the puffs!
Serve as they are, slightly warm or cold, or dusted with icing sugar or decorated with a zig zag of icing made with lemon juice and icing sugar if you like.
Makes approximately 12 turnovers, depending on the dimensions of your pastry sheet.
Mmmme, I'll have to try both of these. Cakes always go down well at sewing club and our next board game evening is at my place so I'll try the apple turnovers first and I think I might be sorted! Thank you so much. Anna
ReplyDeleteA turnover is always going to cheer up a grey day. I'm especially fond of apple, possibly because it reminds me of happy times in Normandy. I recently made and froze a large batch of apple compote but, sadly, my freezer gave up the ghost while I was away on urgent family business and there wasn't much left by the time I got home some weeks later.
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