If you follow my page, you know that I love making easy recipes with puff pastry. Puff pastry is such a game-changer for baking and cooking because it saves so much time and also tastes so good. My newest recipe is these apple roses with puff pastry. They are such a pretty recipe, such a great breakfast pastry or dessert option.

If you love apple baked goods, you’re going to love this apple roses puffed pastry treat. It is so simple to make and turned out so beautifully. I dusted the apple puff pastry roses with powdered sugar, once they were cooled. This made them look prettier. Next time, I think I might take each individual puff pastry rose and add just the lightest drizzle of a sugar glaze, to almost mimic dew on the petals. I think the sweetness of a glaze would taste so good with the tart apples and buttery pastry.

How to Use Store-Bought Puff Pastry

I prefer to use store-bought puff pastry because it is so much easier than making it from scratch. You can find it in the freezer section of your supermarket near the pie crusts or store-bought pies. It is best if you defrost it overnight. It is so much easier to work with if it’s not frozen. 

Once your puff pastry is defrosted, add some flour to your cutting board. Unfold the puff pastry and then roll it out to get rid of the creases. Then, you’ll cut each of the puff pastry squares into 6 strips. Once you have your strips cut, you can add an apricot or orange jam glaze to each of the strips.

The next step is to make a simple cinnamon sugar coating to sprinkle on top of the puff pastry and jam before adding the apples. You’ll use the other half of the cinnamon sugar mixture to coat the apples.

How to Make Apple Roses with Puff Pastry

Now that we’ve prepped the puff pastry, let’s make the apple roses in puff pastry, Once you have the puff pastry prepped, you need to slice your apples. One mistake I made was not slicing my apples thin enough and then not cooking them long enough for trying to put together the puff pastry apple roses. The first one I tried completely broke and fell apart.

How to Get Thin-Sliced Apples

If you want your apples to be thin and the same width, I’d highly suggest using a mandoline. This one has very good reviews. Once you slice the apples, it’s really important to cook them to make them pliable. I put mine in a microwave-safe bowl, added water and lemon juice (to keep them from browning), and microwaved them for 2-3 minutes until the apples were easy to bend. You don’t want to overcook them, but if they don’t bend without snapping, you need to cook them longer. 

Once the apples are pliable, you can place them overlapping on the puff pastry with the skin-side facing upward. There is no need to peel the apples, as the red skin makes it look more like rose petals. Make sure you grease or coat a muffin tin with cooking spray before adding each of the apple roses puff pastry to the muffin tin slot. Then, bake at 375 for 40-45 minutes, until the pastry is golden brown.

Ingredients for Apple Roses with Puff Pastry

• 2-3 red apples – any firm apple will do
• 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
• 2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
• 2 Tablespoons White Sugar
• 1/2 lemon for juicing
• 1 package of frozen puff pastry
• 3 to 4 Tablespoons apricot or apple jelly

Directions for Making Puff Pastry Roses

Preheat the oven to 375. Prepare your cupcake tin with butter or cooking spray. Add water to a large bowl and add the lemon juice. Using your mandoline or knife, thinly slice the apples. Add the apples to the bowl with water and lemon and set aside. Mix together the cinnamon and sugar and set aside.

Place the puff pastry on a floured surface and roll to remove the creases. Cut into 6 equal strips. Add a light coating of the jelly onto each of the strips and sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar mix. 

Yield: 12

Apple Roses with Puff Pastry

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How to make these puff pastry apple roses

Ingredients

• 2-3 Red Apples
• Package of Frozen Puff Pastry
• 1/2 Lemon for juice
• 2 Cups Water
• 3-4 Tablepoons apple or apricot jelly
• 2 Tablespoons White Sugar
• 2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
• 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon
• Powdered Sugar for Dusting

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375.
2. Prepare your cupcake tin with butter or cooking spray.
3. Add water to a large bowl and add the lemon juice.
4. Using your mandoline or knife, thinly slice the apples. Add the apples to the bowl with water and lemon and set aside.
5. Mix together the cinnamon and sugar and set aside.
6. Place the puff pastry on a floured surface and roll to remove the creases. Cut into 6 equal strips.
7. Add a light coating of the jelly onto each of the strips and sprinkle with the cinnamon sugar mix. 
8. Heat the bowl of apples in the microwave for 2-3 minutes. Make sure they are pliable but don't overcook.
9. Drain the water and sprinkle with the other half of the sugar-cinnamon mixture.
10. Overlap the apples on each of the puff pastry strips. The skin side of the apple should be facing outward. A lot of recipes I've seen suggest folding the puff pastry over the core side of the apple to hold them in place before rolling. I didn't do this step. I simply rolled the apples on top of each other, and that worked just fine for me. That gives you a less thick pastry, in m opinion. I suppose it might have been easier to roll it with the pastry overlapping, the cut end of the apple, but mine turned out just fine without this step.
11. Bake it in the oven for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Mine came out of the pan very easily because I have a silicon cupcake tin, like this one.
12. Once they were cooled, I dusted them with powdered sugar. These kept well in an airtight container for a couple of days, as long as they lasted in my house! My whole family loved them and ate them right up!

 

I really hope you’ll try this gorgeous apple roses with puff pastry recipe. They are such delicious pastries to enjoy with brunch or as an afternoon snack with a cup of tea or coffee. My entire family loved them and I think you will too. If you’re looking for other puff pastry recipes, click here.