Little apple pastries

Name: Little apple pastries
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves: 6
Ingredients: 150 g white marzipan; 1 packet ready rolled puff pastry; 50 g butter; 3 large eating apples; 6 tablespoons thick double cream or crème fraîche, to serve; 6 teaspoons brown sugar; 3 tablespoons apricot jam (no bits); 2 tablespoons water; 6 tablespoons thick double cream or crème fraîche, to serve

Preparation info

Serves:
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
40 min

Appears in

Lucy's Food

By Lucy Cufflin

Published 2013

About

Once mastered, these little tarts can be filled with pears, pineapple, plums – really any fruit that can be cooked. Perfect with cream, ice cream or custard.

Ingredients

1 packet ready rolled puff pastry
150 g white marzipan
3 large eating apples

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Lay the pastry out onto a baking sheet. Cut into 6 equal-sized oblong/square shapes. Score a line 1cm inside the edge of each piece and prick the central oblong all over with a fork.
Slice the marzipan into 6 and place a piece on to the centre of each pastry.
Peel the apples and cut them in half. Carefully remove the core and then slice them leaving t