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Apple Roses Recipe

Jennifer Ryan
These beautiful apple roses with pie crust taste just like apple pie. How to make pretty blossom rose apple tarts.
5 from 29 votes
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 45 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine French
Servings 6
Calories 417 kcal

Equipment

Ingredients
 
 

Instructions
 

  • First preheat your oven to 180°C 350°F.
    Oven set to 180°C or 350°F, indicating baking temperature.
  • Then core and chop your apples in half from top to bottom.
    A hand slicing a red apple on a wooden cutting board.
  • Thinly slice your apples so they look like apple rainbow shapes.
    Slicing a red apple into thin pieces for a baked apple rose recipe.
  • Grab yourself a Pyrex bowl, add a little water and a good amount of lemon juice in.
    A hand squeezes lemon juice into a bowl of water, preparing for apple rose recipe.
  • Place your sliced apple into the lemon water.
    A bowl filled with thinly sliced apples, ready for baking into rose shapes.
  • Pop the apples into the oven for about 10 minutes, or until the apple slices are warm and flexible.
    A bowl of thinly sliced apples soaking in water.
  • Roll out your puff pastry sheet and cut it into six long strips.
    A hand rolling a strip of pastry dough for baked apple roses.
  • Add a thin layer of strawberry jam to each stipe of puff pastry using a pastry brush.
    A pastry strip being brushed with a layer of jam on a wooden surface.
  • Then in a line in the center of your pastries, place the apple slices slightly over lapping each other in a straight line.
    A hand placing apple slices on a pastry strip to create a baked apple rose.
  • Fold the pastry over covering the bottom of the line of apple slices.
    Hands rolling out dough for baked apple roses on a wooden surface.
  • Press the pastry down to seal the slices of apple in place.
    Hands rolling out dough for baked apple roses on a wooden surface.
  • Then simply roll up the pastry from one end to the other to make your apple rose into a flower.
    Hands rolling dough around an apple slice to create a rose shape.
  • Cut a square of parchment paper out and place your apple rose cupcakes into a muffin tin.
    A hand placing parchment paper in a baking tray.
  • Repeat this process until all the rose apples are made.
    A beautifully arranged baked apple rose in a baking tray.
  • Place tour apple rose tarts into your preheated oven for 25 mins.
    Close-up of baked apple roses arranged in parchment paper cups.
  • I decorate my apple roses with sprinkles of powdered sugar for that polished look.
    Close-up of baked apple roses dusted with powdered sugar.
  • Once you've baked your tasty rose pastries you can serve hot and fresh out of the oven or serve them later chilled, it’s up to you.
    A baked apple rose pastry with layers of apple slices arranged in a rose shape, dusted with powdered sugar.

Notes

Tips and Tricks
Make sure that your slices of apple are able to bend without snapping before placing them on to the pastry.
You can pop the bowl of apple slices in lemon water into the microwave for 1-2 minutes instead of the oven if you prefer (just make sure they are flexible before making them into a rose)
You can also place the apple roses into cupcake cases instead of cutting squares of parchment paper.
Instead of using strawberry jam why not mix butter, brown sugar and cinnamon together and spread a tin layer just like the jam or some rose apple recipes use cream cheese in the puff pastry base.

Nutrition

Calories: 417kcalCarbohydrates: 56gProtein: 4gFat: 21gSaturated Fat: 5gSodium: 138mgPotassium: 235mgFiber: 5gSugar: 24gVitamin A: 99IUVitamin C: 9mgCalcium: 18mgIron: 2mg
Keywords apple, apple roses, autumn, beautiful food, pastry, roses, valentines day, Warm
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