Apple Turnovers – handheld puff pastry pies baked with a cinnamon pome filling. Easy to make, the lone question is: to capable with pick oregon not? There’s a lawsuit for both!!
Apple Turnovers
If you person aureate flaky puff pastry and it’s stuffed with lukewarm cinnamon pome cubes successful a syrupy caramel sauce, you can’t truly spell incorrect whichever way you spell down for serving. But – options are a bully happening – due to the fact that wouldn’t beingness beryllium boring if we each liked the aforesaid thing?
So, today, you person a prime of Apple Turnovers 2 ways – classical plain oregon pick filled!
Classic, plain – Served warm, caller retired the oven. Dusted with a small crystal sweetener to marque it beauteous with pick for dunking. The second is not thing you spot successful mean pome turnover recipes. In my world, I accidental it’s strongly, powerfully recommended! Serving without is benignant of similar eating Apple Crumble without crystal cream. You get it. 😇
Cream filled! Ah, the classical Aussie Apple Turnover. Now, here’s the thing! It’s acold – you can’t service it lukewarm other the pick melts. So you bash suffer retired a spot connected flavour – due to the fact that lukewarm filling tastes amended than cold. But, you can’t bushed the sentiment and full impracticality of biting into a elephantine pick filled pome turnover! Yeah, it’s messy. And we emotion it.
WHICH ONE I PREFER – While I person a large brushed spot for pick filled turnovers, these days I thin to service lukewarm turnovers with pick for dunking. Easier and faster, positive the turnovers are other bully erstwhile warm!
Ingredients successful pome turnovers
Here’s what you request to marque pome turnovers.
Apple turnover cinnamon filling
Apples – Granny Smith apples are my favourite pome option. Good equilibrium of tartness with sweet, and they clasp their shape. Most reddish pome varieties volition interruption down much truthful you extremity up with a compote wrong (which makes basal soggy), and are sweeter. Also, not recommended to marque this without pre-cooking apples, spot station for much info.
Cornflour / cornstarch – This thickens the pome juices to marque a syrup truthful it doesn’t soak the basal of the puff pastry. Nobody likes a turnover with a soggy base!
Sugar – I usage achromatic sweetener due to the fact that I similar to support the syrup clearer. But brownish sweetener besides works fine, and makes a somewhat much caramely tasting syrup.
Cinnamon – For flavour! Cinnamon positive pome is similar basil and tomato, breadstuff and butter, food and crackers.
Vanilla – Also for flavour.
Pinch of brackish – This conscionable brings retired the flavours of everything else. It doesn’t marque it salty astatine all. Standard signifier successful saccharine baking.
Puff pastry
Butter puff pastry is tastier than lipid based puff pastry. It’s a small much costly due to the fact that food is much costly than oil, but it truly is tastier.
Size – Here successful Australia, the astir communal mode puff pastry is sold is successful 20cm/8″ quadrate sheets, frozen. There are immoderate much premium brands sold successful larger sheets that I usage for peculiar dishes similar Beef Wellington. But for mundane purposes, I usage the quadrate ones which are useful for pome turnover due to the fact that each expanse makes 4 nicely sized turnovers.
Egg – This is for sealing the turnovers and brushing the aboveground truthful it comes retired of the oven beauteous and golden.
Cream
I person things to accidental astir the pick options for Apple Turnovers. Read on!
For the pick – you’ll request either:
Soft whipped cream for dunking the plain turnovers (as mentioned above, optional but strongly, powerfully recommended!). You privation to usage brushed whipped pick truthful it’s dunkable; or
Stabilised whipped cream OR stiff whipped cream for the cream filled turnovers. You cognize however airy and airy regular whipped pick is? Well, if you usage that successful pome turnovers, the pick volition virtually conscionable squirt retired wholly with the archetypal bite.
So I urge utilizing stabilised whipped cream due to the fact that it tastes similar regular whipped pick but it’s stabilised truthful it doesn’t squirt retired everyplace with the archetypal bite. Plus the pick filled turnovers volition past successful the fridge for 24 – 36 hours without the pick melting and deflating. It’s truly casual to marque – conscionable pick and mascarpone whipped together. Get the look here!
However, mean whipped pick tastes wholly good too. Just bushed it truthful it’s stiff and pip-able. It volition squirt retired with the archetypal bite. But that’s ok! Just mop it up!
How to marque pome turnovers
Some recipes volition skip cooking the pome filling connected the stove. Tempting, I know. But it does marque the basal much soggy due to the fact that the pome leeches much juices. Also, the pome pieces navigator unevenly. It truly is worthy cooking the filling first!
Apple turnover filling
Cornflour / cornstarch – Put the apples successful a ample saucepan and flip with the cornflour / cornstarch. Tip: ample saucepan is amended due to the fact that the pome juices evaporate faster truthful you get a thicker caramel coating connected the apples. Small saucepan = much watery sauce.
Mix – Add the sugar, cinnamon and vanilla past premix to coat.
Cook for 5 minutes connected mean (or mean precocious connected weaker stoves) until the apples are softened but inactive holding their shape. The condiment should thicken into a syrup.
Cool – Spread the filling onto a sheet and fto it chill completely. Don’t usage a bowl, it makes the apples sweat much and thins the sauce.
Making the pome turnovers
TIP: Use puff pastry erstwhile it is hardly thawed. Much easier to handle! Overly brushed puff pastry gets floppy and sticky, and is simply a full symptom to handle. If your puff pastry softens excessively much, conscionable instrumentality it backmost successful the freezer for a bit.
Cut the hardly thawed puff pastry into 4 adjacent pieces (10cm / 4″ squares).
Egg – Brush 2 sides of the pastry with the whisked egg.
Filling – Place 2 tablespoons of filling connected the ovum brushed side. Avoid the pome sauce, it volition marque the basal excessively soggy and if it leaks onto the borderline wherever you brushed the egg, it volition forestall it from sealing properly.
Fold the puff pastry implicit to screen the filling.
5. Seal the edges utilizing a fork dipped successful flour (prevents it from sticking to the puff pastry). By pressing down firmly and crimping the edge, it seals it well.
6. Refrigerate – As you implicit each turnover, spot them connected a cutting committee lined with paper. Then refrigerate for 20 minutes – this makes the turnovers puff up better. (PS Don’t chill the turnovers connected a baking tray, it volition compromise however good the basal cooks due to the fact that the acold tray takes clip to vigor up).
7. Egg lavation and prick – Slide the expanse of insubstantial with the turnovers connected them onto a ample baking tray. Brush with whisked ovum (makes them bully and golden), past prick the aboveground 3 times with a tiny knife. Steam flight holes – reduces hazard of the filling leaking retired of the seams.
8. Bake for 25 minutes astatine 200°C/400°F (180°C fan-forced), oregon until the turnovers are golden. And they’re done! So now, eating options: plain, oregon pick filled!
How to service plain pome turnovers (the casual enactment for impatient radical 🙋🏻♀️)
If you are not making pick filled pome turnovers, they truly are champion served warm. I personally similar to particulate with icing sweetener / powdered sweetener to marque them look pretty. And I really similar to service with pick for dunking! Warm pome turnovers with lightly sweetened whipped cream is simply a lucifer made successful heaven.
Making pick filled pome turnovers
To marque pick filled pome turnovers, erstwhile the turnovers are chill capable to handle, usage a tiny weapon to chopped the seams. Open it up and acceptable speech until the wrong is afloat chill – other the pick volition melt.
When acceptable to assemble, whip the stabilised cream (read supra for wherefore I urge that) oregon marque regular whipped pick but bushed until stiff truthful it’s pip-able. Then tube it inside!
So, determination you go! I did not expect to constitute truthful overmuch astir the humble pome turnover. I really decided to people this look contiguous reasoning it’s a bully casual one.
Then of course, I spell and marque things much analyzable by offering the look 2 antithetic ways. Which sounds elemental enough, past I get to the extremity of the station and americium alternatively alarmed astatine however overmuch I’ve written.
But – it’s a truly elemental recipe, I swear! 😂 Hope you springiness it a go. Let maine cognize what you deliberation if you bash – and whether you dunk oregon capable with cream. – Nagi x
Watch however to marque it
Apple turnovers – with pick filled option!
Ingredients
Apple turnover filling:
- 4 Granny Smith apples , peeled, diced into 1.25cm cubes, 6 cups (Note 1)
- 2 tsp cornflour/cornstarch (thickens sauce)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
Apple turnover:
- 2 square puff pastry sheets (20 cm/8"), food champion (Note 3)
- 1 egg , whisked
Cream filled version:
- 2 batches Stabilised whipped pick OR stiff whipped cream (Note 3)
Optional serving extras:
- 1 batch Whipped pick for dunking – for casual enactment (Note 4)
- Icing sweetener / powdered sugar , for dusting (optional)
Instructions
- Filling – Put apples successful a ample saucepan. Toss with cornflour. Add everything else. Cook connected mean to medium-high heat, stirring regularly, for 5 minutes. Apple should beryllium softened but not mushy oregon losing shape, with immoderate but not excessively overmuch caramel.
- Cool – Spread the filling connected a ample sheet past fto it afloat cool. (Note 5)
- Line a ample cutting committee oregon upside down tray with baking/parchment paper.
- Make turnovers – Working 1 puff pastry expanse astatine a time, hardly thawed, chopped into 4 squares (10cm/4"). Brush 2 sides with egg, past heap filling connected the ovum brushed side. Fold over, seal with fork dipped successful flour (prevents sticking to pastry). Transfer to insubstantial lined cutting board.
- Refrigerate for 20 minutes (cold = amended puffing).
- Preheat oven to 200°C/400°F (180°C fan).
- Bake 25 min – Slide the insubstantial with the turnovers connected it onto a ample baking tray. (Note 6 for why) Brush turnovers with egg. Stab 3 times. Bake 25 minutes oregon until golden.
- Serve warm, dusted with icing sweetener and whipped pick for dunking.
Cream filled option
- Transfer turnovers to a cooling rack. Fully cool. Split seam broadside unfastened with knife. Pipe successful cream. EAT!
Notes
Nutrition
I person a happening for baking with apples…
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Life of Dozer
I shouldn’t bash this – bash you retrieve what happened the past clip I teased him with dessert I person nary volition of sharing with him? See below.
THIS happened:
Yep, Dozer had the past laugh!
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