Impress your guests with these beautiful donut-shaped pastries, simply made with a thick slice of apple, a dash of cinnamon, wrapped in flaky and sweet puff pastry. Quick and easy to make, and tastes just like apple pie!
A fall-inspired, simple, fun and delicious dessert, in a beautiful donut shape (or maybe it looks more like a pumpkin ;).
Made with a cinnamon-flavored apple ring, wrapped in crispy and flaky puff pastry.
I was scrolling through my Instagram reel feed the other day and saw a quick video of apple rings wrapped in pastry.
Peel and cut the apple in thick slices crosswise. I remove a sliver from the top and the bottom of the apple, then cut each into four slices.
Remove the core and make a hole in the middle. I used a round cookie cutter - 1 inch in diameter. But you can cut with a knife. Note: I would not go any smaller than 1 inch for the hole, or the wrapping part will be harder.
Sprinkle the apple slices with cinnamon. As much or ss little as your tastebuds ask for!
Next you need to roll out the puff pastry if needed (I used Jus Rol puff pastry which is already pre-rolled!), sprinkle with a little sugar (you can do regular or brown sugar or cinnamon/sugar mix).
Cut the puff pastry into strips. I use this roller, but you can cut with simple knife. These strips don't need to be perfect so don't worry too much about straight lines.
I cut the pastry lenghtwise into 1 inch strips, and then into shorter little strips about 2 inches long.
You are welcome to test it out before you cut all your strips. Each strip should go around the apple ring one time, and can be stretched too.
Wrap each apple rings with about 8 to 10 pastry strips as needed: poke the end of one strips in the hole, hold it with one finger and wrap the pastry around the ring and under with the other hand.
Make sure to overlap the strips a little. You can stretch the pastry if needed, and try to keep the middle hole open if possible.
If there's extra pastry under the apple slice you remove it, or flatten it out with your fingers like I did.
For the egg wash: beat one egg with a tablespoon of water, and brush the pastries. You can also use milk if you rather not use eggs.
Bake at 400F for about 25 minutes, until golden and crispy. Make sure to set the timer for 20 minutes and check the top ... you don't want to burn it. If it look already golden you can place the tray lower in the over or cover loosely with aluminum foil.
You can serve warm or hot right out of the oven. Don't forget a scoop of ice cream. Heavenly!
Happy baking!
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