Caramel Apple Roses Recipes

CARAMEL APPLE ROSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375F and lightly grease a standard muffin tin.
• Rinse apples thoroughly, then cut them vertically and remove core. Place halves cut side down and slice them very thinly.
• Place apple slices in a bowl of water and microwave for 3 minutes, or until softened.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll out puff pastry and use a knife or rotary cutter to cut pastry into 3 - 5 long, narrow stips.
• Take one strip and spread 1/2 - 1 tablespoon caramel sauce down the middle of it.
• Laying them partially on top of one another, spread apples out at the top of pastry, so that the tops of slices are hanging off the edge of dough.
• Sprinkle apple slices generously with brown sugar and cinnamon, then gently fold the bottom half of puff pastry up over the apple slices to create a little folder for them.
• Take the short edge of the dough and slowly roll it over itself until the apples are all wrapped into a spiraled rose.
• Place apple rose in muffin tin, then repeat with remaining apples and puff pastry.
• Place muffin tin in oven and bake for 35 - 40 minutes, or until puff pastry is golden and cooked all the way through.
• Remove apple roses from oven and garnish with powdered sugar before serving.
• Enjoy!

BAKED APPLE ROSES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Butter 2 small ramekins (6 to 8 ounce) and dust with white sugar.
• Place apple slices on a plate, overlapping slightly if necessary. Microwave on High about 45 seconds just until slices have softened a bit. Cover plate with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel.
• Mix together sugar and cinnamon in a bowl.
• Roll puff pastry sheet to less than 1/8-inch thickness. Using a pizza cutter, cut two 3-inch by 12-inch rectangles. Reserve remaining pieces for another use.
• Spread melted butter over dough; top with a generous amount of cinnamon-sugar. Place apple slices along 1 long edge of dough, about 1/4 inch beyond edge of dough, overlapping slices slightly. Fold bottom half of dough over the apple slices to form a long "folder" of dough with rounded edges of apple slices exposed.
• Beat egg and water together in a bowl. Paint surface of dough with egg wash. Sprinkle with more cinnamon-sugar, to taste.
• Starting from one end, roll dough not too tightly to form a rose-shaped pastry. Seal roll with end of dough strip.
• Transfer roses to prepared ramekins. Sprinkle with a little more cinnamon-sugar. Place ramekins directly on middle rack of preheated oven.
• Bake until well browned, about 45 minutes. Remove ramekins with tongs and place on baking sheet to cool 5 to 10 minutes. Remove apple roses from ramekins and finish cooling on rack. Dust with confectioners' sugar before serving.