Apple Puff Pie is a very quick way to prepare pastries for tea when guests are on the doorstep. The recipes are very simple, but the result exceeds all expectations.
Puff pastry apple strudel
For the preparation of apple strudel, ready-made puff yeast-free dough is used. You can add raisins as you wish.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of puff pastry;
- 70 grams of shortbread cookies;
- 2 medium sized apples;
- 2 tablespoons chopped walnuts
- A teaspoon of lemon zest;
- A tablespoon of raisins;
- 2 tablespoons of sugar;
- Half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
How to make puff pastry strudel:
The strudel dough must be completely defrosted. Therefore, get it out of the refrigerator in advance, but do not take it out of the package.
Wash the lemon thoroughly, wipe it off and use a fine grater to remove the zest from it. Measure out a teaspoon.
Soak the raisins in hot water beforehand and let them swell. Then rinse and dry on a paper towel.
Wash the apples, peel them and cut them into small cubes.
Take baking paper and roll out the dough on it. Cut into 2 rectangles of unequal size. One should be slightly larger. This is the top rectangle. More because he will need to close the apple filling overlaid with a slide.
Crumble the cookies in a plate, sprinkle some cookies on a smaller rectangle, place chopped walnuts. Leave a distance of about one and a half centimeters from the edge so that you can then seal the edges between the top and bottom layers of dough.
Place apples on top of the nuts and sprinkle with sugar. Add ground cinnamon and raisins.
Make a few cuts on the top layer of the dough, then carefully place it on top of the apples and secure the edges with a fork.
Beat the egg a little in a small bowl and brush over the strudel, paying particular attention to the joints of the dough.
Place the apple pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 40 minutes.
Sprinkle the finished apple pie with icing sugar and cool completely. Cut into slices and serve.
Puff pastry apple pie - recipe with photo
To make a quick apple pie, you will need a ready-made yeast-free puff pastry. The pie will be ready in half an hour, provided the dough is defrosted.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of puff pastry;
- 400 grams of apples;
- 60 grams of granulated sugar;
- 10 grams of ground cinnamon;
- 1 egg (only the yolk is needed).
Let's prepare a pie with apples in stages:
First of all, you need to defrost the puff pastry if you bought a frozen convenience food. In the refrigerator, the dough will thaw for 10 hours, and on the table - 5. It is unacceptable to defrost puff pastry in the microwave or in some other accelerated way.
Roll out the puff pastry on a floured board.
Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200 degrees, so that the finished puff apple pie can be put on a preheated baking sheet. You can peel the apples, you can leave the peel. Take out the center, cut the apple in half and cut into thin slices.
Cut the rolled dough into two halves. Cover the hot baking sheet with parchment and lay out the first half of the dough. Arrange the sliced apples neatly, backing 4 centimeters from the edge.
Combine the sugar and cinnamon and sprinkle the apples evenly.
Fold the remaining dough in half and cut with a sharp knife.
Carefully unfold the cut slice of dough and place it on top. Pinch the edges and drop the cut strips down one through one.
Brush the entire surface of the cake with yolk using a silicone brush.
Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 200 degrees and set for 20 minutes.
During this time, the puff pastry with apples will brown, sugar and cinnamon will turn into soft caramel.
Cut the pie into portions only after cooling completely.
Classic puff pastry apple pie
This recipe does not use ready-made puff pastry. You need to prepare the dough yourself. For this, the simplest recipe for a quick puff pastry will be used. If you do not want to cook the dough at home, feel free to replace it with a purchased yeast-free one and save time on baking.
Ingredients:
For the test:
- 320 grams of premium wheat flour;
- 100 grams of natural butter;
- 125 ml of water;
- A teaspoon of sugar;
- A pinch of salt.
From the specified amount of ingredients, you get a little more than 500 grams of puff pastry. Therefore, if you are replacing the dough with purchased ones, take a half-kilogram package.
Filling:
- 400 grams of red apples;
- 50 grams of brown sugar;
- Vanilla, ground cinnamon - to taste;
- Two tablespoons of melted butter
- 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar;
- 3 tablespoons of raisins.
Making puff pastry at home:
Sift flour onto the table with a slide and make a depression in the center. Cut the butter into cubes and place on top of the flour. Chop the butter and flour with a knife to make large crumbs. Pour salt and sugar into water at room temperature and stir until completely dissolved. Pour the water into the flour and butter and knead the dough. It is important to do this very quickly.
Wrap the puff pastry in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours. Then take it out and roll it into a thin layer. Fold it in half. Roll out again. Repeat the rolling procedure for a total of 5 times.
To always meet guests with delicious and aromatic pastries, you can prepare puff pastry in advance. In the refrigerator, covered with cling film, it is stored for five days. In a freezer at a temperature of -18 degrees, the shelf life is increased to six months. The only disadvantage of deep freezing is that the puff pastry will have to be defrosted for a long time. At room temperature, this process takes about 5 hours. On the bottom shelf of the refrigerator - 10.
Cooking Puff Apple Pie:
Rinse the raisins in advance, soak for 20 minutes in hot water. Then fold in a colander and place on a paper towel.
Wash the apples, take out the core and cut into thin cubes.
Mix sugar with vanilla and cinnamon.
Divide the puff pastry into 2 equal sized layers. Roll the first one so that the thickness is about 5 millimeters.
Spread 2 tablespoons of flour evenly, leaving about 2 centimeters to each edge. This is so that the apples, giving juice, do not spoil the bottom of the pie, making it runny.
Top the flour with chopped apples and sprinkle with sugar.
Cut the second part of the dough into equal strips and lay them obliquely over the apples, pinching to the edges of the first layer. You get a braid.
Grease the top layer with melted butter and bake in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 15 minutes. Then turn the temperature down to 160 degrees, and note for another 10 minutes. Sprinkle the finished puff pastry with apples with sifted icing sugar.
Puff pastry open apple pie
For this recipe, you only need 250 grams of puff pastry, that is, half a package. You can make two apple pies, doubling the ingredients.
Ingredients:
- 250 grams of puff yeast-free dough;
- 50 grams of granulated sugar;
- 4 medium-sized sweet apples;
- Protein of 1 egg.
Making an open apple pie:
Wash and dry the apples. Core and cut each apple in half. Then cut each half into thin slices.
Roll out the dough and place in a parchment-lined baking dish. Press the dough to the edges of the mold and fix the corners.
Arrange the sliced apples nicely and sprinkle the cake with half the sugar.
Whisk the whites into a stiff foam, add sugar and continue whisking. Using a pastry syringe, place the whipped egg white on top of the apples. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 30 minutes. Do not remove from the mold and do not cut until it has cooled completely.
Apple pie with nuts
A simple recipe for a delicious and satisfying puff pastry with apples and nuts.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of puff pastry;
- 4 apples;
- 4 tablespoons of sugar;
- A tablespoon of minced almonds
- A tablespoon of brandy;
- 1 egg.
How to make a delicious apple pie step by step:
Defrost the puff pastry at room temperature. Unfold it carefully.
Wash apples, core and cut into thin slices. The rind can be peeled or left as desired.
Spread the apples in an even layer over one half of the dough. Sprinkle with brandy. Sprinkle with granulated sugar and chopped nuts.
Cover with a second piece of dough and pinch the edges. You can make a nice decoration for the top of an apple pie by cutting the dough into strips and laying it out like a braid. You can make staggered cuts on the dough layer and stretch it a little.
Bake the apple pie in an oven preheated to 220 degrees for 15 minutes. Then brush with beaten egg and bake for another 5 minutes.
Serve the cooled cake to the table sprinkled with powdered sugar and ground cinnamon.
Puff apple pie with cottage cheese
To prepare this pie, take only fresh cottage cheese 9% fat. This is the only way this valuable product will not spoil the taste of apple pie.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of puff yeast-free dough;
- 500 grams of cottage cheese;
- 300 grams of apples;
- 150 grams of peeled bananas;
- 1 egg;
- 100 grams of brown sugar;
- Cinnamon and vanillin.
How to make apple puff pastry at home:
On a floured table, roll out the defrosted puff pastry into a layer about 5 millimeters thick. Rub the cottage cheese through a sieve, mix with sugar, egg, vanilla and cinnamon. Cut the apples into slices, after removing the core from them. Peel the bananas and cut into circles approximately 4 millimeters thick.
Place the filling in the center of the dough layer. The same distance should remain at all edges. Distribute the filling so that it forms a rectangle. Cut the remaining dough with a knife into strips 3-4 centimeters wide at an angle of 45 degrees. Place the dough strips on top of the filling one at a time. You will get a kind of braid. Bake the apple pie in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 45 minutes.
Puffs with apples from ready-made yeast dough
For this recipe, yeast puff pastry is used. And the puffs are made small.
Ingredients:
- 500 grams of puff yeast dough;
- 500 grams of apples;
- 5 tablespoons of sugar;
- Ground cinnamon;
- 1 egg.
Apple puffs - recipe:
Spread the completely defrosted yeast puff pastry on a floured table. Peel the apples and seeds, cut into small cubes. Do not grate on a grater, otherwise the apples will give too much juice.
Roll out a slab of dough and cut it into small rectangles of equal size.
Place apples on one rectangle, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. The amount of sugar will depend on how sweet the blocks are. It is better not to use sour apples for making puffs at all, as they give too much juice.
On the second part of the rectangles, you need to make cuts with a sharp knife and close the first part of the filled dough with them. Secure the edges.
Grease with an egg and send to an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 25 minutes.
It can be served sprinkled with icing sugar.
