Queen’s Apple

Queen’s Apple is so named because the baked pastry-wrapped apple becomes round on the top with a fairly flat bottom and, when the slits on the sides bake open, it resembles a crown. It is a more elegant presentation than the conventional method of encasing the apples, commonly called apple dumplings, but a bit more time-consuming. You can, of course, skip using the template, cut the rounds of puff pastry using any round guide of the appropriate size, such as a plate, then cut out the wedges