If you are looking for a unique way to use puff pastry and apples, consider trying this puff pastry apple ring recipe that is golden and flaky with the taste of sweet apples. This dessert is wonderful with a cup of coffee for an afternoon snack or as an after dinner dessert.
To make it, a round of puff pastry gets artfully filled with ladyfingers, apricot jam, and sliced apples before being garnished with walnuts. Then, once baked, the pastry becomes puffed and golden brown. Dusted with icing sugar, it makes a delicious sweet dessert any time of the year.
What is a Puff Pastry Apple Ring?
This puff pastry apple ring is a take on apple tarts or apple pie as it involves a flaky dough and sliced apples. The filling is a little unique, though, as rather than just including apples, it also has ladyfingers and apricot jam for contrasting textures and flavors. The entire dessert gets assembled as a ring that can be sliced into portions that are delicious with cups of tea or coffee to cut through the sweetness.
Pro Tips
- The puff pastry should be kept cold in the fridge until you are ready to use it as this will make it easier to work with and ensure that it puffs up in the oven forming the perfect flaky texture.
- Use apples that will hold their texture during cooking such as macintosh, pink lady, spartan, or granny smith.
- Evenly brush the pastry with milk to ensure it browns evenly.
- If you don’t love walnuts, feel free to replace them with pecans which will offer a similar texture.
- Don’t underbake the puff pastry apple ring. You will know it is properly baked when it is puffed up and has a deep golden color on both the top and bottom.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is a Puff Pastry Apple Ring a Good Alternative to Pie?
Yes, it is! If you find that making an apple pie is too time-consuming or fussy, this puff pastry apple ring is an excellent alternative. All you have to do is assemble store-bought puff pastry with the filling of sautéed apples, ladyfingers, and apricot jam before baking it in the oven.
Are Puff Pastry Apple Rings Vegan?
Unfortunately, this puff pastry apple ring recipe isn’t vegan since it uses puff pastry that is generally made with butter. However, if you would like to make it vegan, you may be able to find vegan puff pastry at your local grocery store to use as an alternative, and you can easily replace the butter and milk with plant-based alternatives.
How Long Does it Take to Make This Puff Pastry Apple Ring?
While this puff pastry recipe does require 35 minutes in the oven, it should need anymore than 20 to 30 minutes hands-on time for you to sauté the apples and assemble it.
What are the Best Apples for Baking?
The best apples for baking are ones that will hold their shape and that you enjoy the flavor of. Macintosh, Cortland, Spartan, Golden Delicious, and Pink Lady are all examples of good baking apples.
How to Store Puff Pastry Apple Ring
While this recipe is best enjoyed the day it is made, you can easily store leftovers in the fridge. Simply place it on a platter and cover it with plastic wrap before placing it in the oven. Then, when you are ready to serve it, you can dust it with extra icing sugar.
Ingredients
How to Make Puff Pastry Apple Ring
Peel and slice the apples. Melt the butter in a pan on the stove. Add the apples, sugar, and cinnamon, and cook them until they are soft. Set them aside.
Peel and slice the apples. Melt the butter in a pan on the stove. Add the apples, sugar, and cinnamon, and cook them until they are soft. Set them aside.
Unroll a round of puff pastry and place a small bowl in the middle. Cut the ladyfingers in half and arrange them around the bowl.
Unroll a round of puff pastry and place a small bowl in the middle. Cut the ladyfingers in half and arrange them around the bowl.
Spread the ladyfingers with the apricot jam.
Spread the ladyfingers with the apricot jam.
Arrange the apple slices on top of the ladyfingers.
Arrange the apple slices on top of the ladyfingers.
Remove the bowl from the middle and cut the circle of puff pastry in the middle into wedges.Fold each triangle of puff pastry over the apples.
Remove the bowl from the middle and cut the circle of puff pastry in the middle into wedges.Fold each triangle of puff pastry over the apples.
Brush the pastry with the milk and sprinkle it with walnuts. Bake it in a 360 F/180 C oven for 35 minutes.
Brush the pastry with the milk and sprinkle it with walnuts. Bake it in a 360 F/180 C oven for 35 minutes.
Arrange the baked pastry ring on a platter. Brush it with apricot jam and sprinkle it with powdered sugar before serving.
Arrange the baked pastry ring on a platter. Brush it with apricot jam and sprinkle it with powdered sugar before serving.
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