Apples baked in puff pastry in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake apples in puff pastry in the oven? Prepare the products. I use a purchased, yeast-free dough. You can cook it yourself. The finished dough is sold frozen, so defrost it in advance by transferring it from the freezer to the bottom shelf of the refrigerator — this way the process will be most delicate.

2. Step 2:

   

   Prepare the filling for the apples. How to make the filling? Chop the peeled walnuts in any way. I ground them in a mortar, you can punch them with a blender or chop them with a knife. To make the nuts more fragrant, dry them before chopping in a dry frying pan.

3. Step 3:

   

   Mix the chopped nuts with honey. You can also add raisins, cinnamon, lemon zest to the filling.

4. Step 4:

   

   Wash and dry the apples. The most delicious varieties for baking are autumn, such as Antonovka. With a knife and a spoon, cut out their middle with seeds from the side of the stalk.

5. Step 5:

   

   Fill the apples with stuffing.

6. Step 6:

   

   Roll out one layer of dough with a rolling pin on a table dusted with flour. Puff pastry has a feature of stretching well in one direction, so roll it out along it. You should get a rectangular layer with a thickness of about 3 mm. Cut it into two squares. Put stuffed apples in the center of each. Cut out the corners of the squares so that you get a quadrangular star.

8. Step 7:

   

   Gather the ends of the star on top of the apple, wrap them, forming an apple stalk. Cut out the leaves from the remains of the dough. I have a special notch, I did it with it. Lay the leaves near the "peduncle". Similarly, make the rest of the apples.

9. Step 8:

   

   Cover the baking sheet with baking paper. Put the apples in the dough on it.

10. Step 9:

    

    Wash the egg, dry it and break it into a bowl. Whisk it with a fork until smooth. Grease the dough with a cooking brush with beaten egg.

11. Step 10:

    

    Bake apples in puff pastry in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C, 15-20 minutes, until golden brown. The exact time will depend on the characteristics of your oven. Remove the finished apples from the oven.

12. Step 11:

    

    Serve the apples to the table warm or chilled. You can sprinkle them with powdered sugar. Bon appetit!